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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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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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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If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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Iconic jobs are interesting to deconstruct through therapy.
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So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character to admit to that so I could get to the next, more interesting level in the story.
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Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
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I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.
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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.
