Paul Neilan Quotes
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?
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Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
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Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.
