Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.
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I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
