Paul Tucker Quotes
A lot of the time you get to a point where you’re just doing your own head in.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
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The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.
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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.
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If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
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When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.
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This is an amazing business, creative and mechanical at the same time.
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Louis deliberately chose someone who hadn’t been to university because theories of animal behaviour at that time were very rigid, and Louis didn’t want someone whose mind was biased in that way. Wise man. But still I had the responsibility to prove myself. I remember looking up at the hills and wondering, 'Can I do it?'
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Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
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You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
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Anyone I'm with has to love my son just as much as they love me, if not more, because I don't play any games with King.
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A lot of the time you get to a point where you’re just doing your own head in.
