Paul McCartney Quotes
I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a good time.
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I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
