Paul Sparks Quotes
I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.
