Paul McCartney Quotes
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.
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A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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There are Hall of Famers at 5'11'' and 5'9''.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
