Paul Simon Quotes
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
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I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
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Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.
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I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
