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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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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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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I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
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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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I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll see me in black, white, and a pop of color on my lips. That pop adds a little magic.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.
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When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.
