Paul McCartney Quotes

Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

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• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

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• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

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• I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

  

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• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

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• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

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• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

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• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

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• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

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• For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Look
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• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

  

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  • Hand
  • Story
  • Run

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

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  • Always
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• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

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• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  

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• At the end of the day I'm gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don't think it's gonna be what was printed in the tabloids this year.

  

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• Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

  

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• Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fighting