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.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Marriage
  • Never
  • Three

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• 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.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Family
  • Me
  • Discovery

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Movies

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• 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.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Business
  • Want
  • Audience

• Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Reach

• 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.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Picture

• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Industry
  • Download

• 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.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• I never met a kid I liked.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Met

• Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stop

• All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

  

  Francoise Sagan
  • People
  • Life
  • Passion

• What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Home
  • Lost

• 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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