Paul Di Filippo Quotes
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
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I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
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I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.
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I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. I'm really drawn to those as well. All different genres.
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My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
