Paul Sparks Quotes
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.
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I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.
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As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!'
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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Love just happens, you know.
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Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
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When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.
