Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I'm not cynical.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.
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When I first started out, there were times I would dress or act in a way because I thought it was expected of me or that people would take me more seriously. But once I started leading in a way that was authentically me, that is when I really started to see success.
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We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.
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Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.
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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
