Paul McCartney Quotes
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
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Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.
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We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
