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.
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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.
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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.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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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.
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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.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.
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Ordinary people can bring about change.
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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.
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Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.
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What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
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Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
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It was predictable he would not turn out terribly well as the head of a very very large and complicated and rich country...
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As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
