Paul Simon Quotes
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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Some people cheer me on. Some people want me to do more Korean movies or TV series.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
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When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.
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I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.
