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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'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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I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
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I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.
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It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition.
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I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.
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Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios at that time that you can't fit into one film.
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A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.
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Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
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Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.
