Paul Fussell Quotes
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.
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Facts and facts, and things an things: dem's all a lotta focking bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.
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Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
