Paul Anka Quotes
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People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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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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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Most people think good enough is good enough.
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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
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I'm trying to laugh uncontrollably with whoever I'm making a song with because whatever we just listened to that we just came up with is so dope. I'm chasing that feeling in the studio, not like a trend or what's hot on the radio at the moment. It just seems like the more I do that, the better I get at what I do. I'm going to keep doing that.
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When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.
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I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.