Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
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I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
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It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'
