Paul Rand (Peretz Rosenbaum) Quotes
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
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Jobs are changing. Jobs will be about the blending of the digital and industrial capabilities.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
