Paul Young Quotes
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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There is no one true church.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.
