Paul Park Quotes
We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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I've had so many injuries.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
