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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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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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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I just want to keep writing music.
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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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I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
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I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'
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I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
