Paul Dini Quotes
I take inspirations from newspaper strip cartoonists who look for ways of expanding their characters' worlds once they have established the initial concept of their strips.
Quotes to Explore
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
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Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
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Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.
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I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.
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We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.
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My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
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Subscribe to your local newspaper. Donate to your public radio and TV stations. If you read 'The New York Times' or 'The Washington Post' or 'The Guardian' or the 'Chicago Tribune' online, subscribe to them. In point of fact, journalistic information is not free. It is dear--in every way. If you complain about fake news but don't pay for real news, you are part of the problem.
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A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.
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I take inspirations from newspaper strip cartoonists who look for ways of expanding their characters' worlds once they have established the initial concept of their strips.
