Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.
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I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.
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The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
