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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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 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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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
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When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.
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Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.
