Paul Gosar Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
-
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
-
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
-
I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
-
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
-
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
-
There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
-
I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
-
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
-
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
-
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
-
Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
-
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
-
Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.
-
People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
-
I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.
-
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
-
Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
-
You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
-
Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
-
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
-
I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
-
I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.
