Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
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As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen.
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I love the feeling of touching the rock, the feeling of my body going up the rock.
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People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
