Anthony Padilla Quotes
We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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You can never have too many friends.
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I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.
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It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.
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I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
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We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.
