Paul Simon Quotes
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.