Paul Dinello Quotes
I don't think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors - clowns, we'll accept that label.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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Love stories should be relatable.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.
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If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
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It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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I used to go on runs, it's kind of hard for me now unfortunately in Paris because it's a little bit hectic. My knees aren't that great, so recently I haven't been on the treadmill that much but that's why I like to box on a soft floor. It's good for me.
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The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.
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I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence Fishburne and Angela Dasset do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.
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Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.
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I don't think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors - clowns, we'll accept that label.
