Paul Simon Quotes
A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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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 am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
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A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
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God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.
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He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
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Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?
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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
