Paul Sparks Quotes

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

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• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Party
  • Failure

• What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Great
  • Success
  • Perfect

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• I can do a good John Wayne.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • I Can
  • John Wayne

• I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fun

• That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

  

  Carole King
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Exciting

• There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Alone
  • Film
  • Idea

• The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Friend
  • Proud
  • Spell

• Ordinary people can bring about change.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Change
  • Bring

• When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

  

  Kanye West
  • Water
  • Products
  • Shirts

• There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.

  

  J. Allen Boone
  • Dog

• It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Theory
  • Mass

• I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other.

  

  Mike Crapo
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Wife

• Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that they would challenge the government, but we have fought every challenge effectively. The daily ups and down of democracy should not be interpreted as lack of stability.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Political
  • Government
  • Fighting

• When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Actors
  • Emotion
  • Naturally

• As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

  

  Paul Sparks
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