Paul McCartney Quotes
When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don't need to tell anybody how good you are. You show them how good you are.' And he drove that home with me. So I learned early not to brag about how good I was or what I could do but let my game take that away and show them that I could play well enough.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
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Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
