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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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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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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We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.
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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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I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.
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We are well organized. We've done enough of them to know what we are doing.
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I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.
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My characters are galley slaves.
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American troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. And so she Hillary Clinton is saying we're not going to go back down that road, which is what the American people want. They don't want us putting more troops.
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If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.
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When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.
