Paul Young Quotes
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
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On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize: I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
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We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
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Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
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I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.
