Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
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I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.
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My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
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I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.
