Paul Keating Quotes
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
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It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.
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You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.
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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.
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I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
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I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
