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!
Quotes to Explore
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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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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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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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The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
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A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.
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For me, I think Bob Iger is one of the smartest men in the country.
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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!
