Paul Engle Quotes
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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I love taking chances.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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I feel naked without earrings. I'll pass out twice. It feels like I'm missing a body part.
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The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
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I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.