Paul Dini Quotes
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
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You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.
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There's this whole underground world of amateur television production.
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Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
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This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
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People think it's not necessary to talk to another human being, and that's the part of it that I don't like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool; they're enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, 'I really like your music. Nice to meet you.'
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.
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When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.
