Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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You have to be yourself.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.
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I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.
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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
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You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
