Paul Dano Quotes
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.
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I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.
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I always have to have the new gadgets and stuff when they come out. I'm not really interested enough in learning how they work.
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Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.
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I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
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It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.
