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.'
RaeLynn -
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.
Victoria Azarenka -
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
Lana Parrilla -
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.
Rachel Ward -
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida -
As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
Naomi Watts
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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.
Katey Sagal -
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
Garry Shandling -
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.
Aaron Sorkin -
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.
Vikram Seth -
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
Lafcadio Hearn -
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.
Dan Rather
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock -
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.
Walt Handelsman -
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.
Taylor Swift -
There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
Ian Somerhalder -
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
Harri Holkeri -
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
Oscar Isaac
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Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
Queen Latifah -
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
Jane Austen -
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine -
I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
Yitzhak Shamir -
You have to be kind to yourself to survive in the world.
Paul Dini