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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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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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I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.
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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
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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.
