Paul Dini Quotes

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

Paul Dini

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• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Power
  • Running

• Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Character
  • Want
  • Myself

• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Internet
  • Information

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Characters
  • Cash
  • Bitcoin

• If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Years
  • Turn

• From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Time
  • Always
  • Neck

• I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Writing
  • Night

• Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Political
  • Change

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fight
  • Vacation
  • Much

• I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Difficult

• From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Learning
  • Year
  • Research

• I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• I always feel I have to take a stand,And there's always someone on handTo hate me for standing there.I always feel I have to open my mouth,And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time
  • Hate

• The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Character
  • Picture

• Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

  

  Paul Dini
  • Creativity
  • Comfortable
  • Mechanism