Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.
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I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.
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Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.
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My sister Kathleen - one year older - was the school's acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn't going to mess with that.
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When you do good work, people will notice you.
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Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
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Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.
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I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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A day doesn't go by where I don't create something.
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It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.
