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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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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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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Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
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I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.
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People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding.
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I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
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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.
