Gary Paulsen Quotes
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
