Paul S. Kemp Quotes
The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
