Paul Dini Quotes
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
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I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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For me with "The Apprentice," it kind of blew out my business brain. I don't really think of myself as a business person. I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it's quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.
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You have to be kind to yourself to survive in the world.
