Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
