Paul Sparks Quotes
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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'It was not seemly to raise your flags on the minarets.'
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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You definitely see a difference in some guys' games when they do get paid. I'm trying to make sure I'm not that player.
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An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
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I helped my dad do landscaping from when I was 14, and then every summer when I'd come home for college, I'd play on a travel baseball team, but during the day, I'd do landscaping.
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The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.
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There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
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I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.
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Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.
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'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.
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The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.
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Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.
