Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

Paul Schrader

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• If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

  

  Samuel Adams
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• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

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• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

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• I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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• Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

  

  Fay Godwin
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• Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

  

  Kate Braverman
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• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

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• The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

  

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• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

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• Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

  

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• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  

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• I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

  

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• I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

  

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• Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

  

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• It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

  

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• If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

  

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• Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

  

  Chad Harbach
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• As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

  

  Stephen Covey
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• Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

  

  Paul Schrader
  • Movies
  • Situation
  • Protagonists