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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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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Our laws force women into celibacy on the one hand, or abortion on the other. npg Both conditions are declared by eminent medical authorities to be injurious to health.
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I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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'90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.
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I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
