Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
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We were trying to do as much science as we could because that was the main purpose of the international space station. But without the shuttle to bring up heavy laboratory equipment and bring back samples, we were limited by what we could do, but I was proud that we actually accomplished more science that was planned for the flight. And I got a chance to do two Russian spacewalks on that flight, I had become an expert in U.S. spacewalks and using U.S. suits and techniques, and this was a chance to put on a Russian Orlan suit and do two construction space flights outside of the space station.
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If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.
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We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
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My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
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A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
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When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
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Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.
