Paul Engle Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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British talent is involved in the other films like the Constant Gardner and I'd argue we are presenting the best of new British film-making talent in our New British Films strand.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
