Paul Putner Quotes
I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
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Guys and girls can be friends without having to date!
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Remember that,” he groaned. “And tell everyone you know.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
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Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.
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I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
