Paul Buchheit Quotes
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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Crises are harbingers of evolution.
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I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Getting the rebound and going, that's probably the most fluid part of my game.
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I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
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You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean, it's accepted by scientists around the world, scientists in our country and it's accepted by every country around the world with the exception of the United States.
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After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.
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Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.
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The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
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Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
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Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.
