Paul G. Tremblay Quotes
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.
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Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.
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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not.
