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

• I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Leadership
  • Individual
  • Powers

• 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

• I am not a trained singer, but I always sing from my heart.

  

  Raashi Khanna
  • Heart
  • Singer
  • Traine

• Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Long
  • Challenges
  • Jobs

• What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Wish

• 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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