Tom Paulin Quotes

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

Tom Paulin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 25, 1949

Topics

LifeGoodJobThinkFeelYou

On a film set, there are runners who are 19, it's their first job, but to me they're as important as anybody else because if they don't do their job then nobody else can. So I don't think anybody should be treated disrespectfully or as if they're of a lower status.

Jim Carter

JobMeThinkNobodyImportantFirst

Established technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google have expanded their reach and influence throughout the world. And while many countries have pushed back against that spread, our government has essentially left them alone.

Jenna Wortham

TechnologyAloneGovernmentWorld

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Robert Redford

LifeNatureSadMeSadnessThink

Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.

Steve Winwood

GreatWorldBetterDownChanges

I work with a stylist called Devon Nuszer and a makeup artist called Aaron Barry, and between those two, I trust them implicitly. I have the things I do over and over again and that I feel safe with, but they inspire me to take risks, and I trust them so much.

Rose McIver

WorkTrustRisksMeMakeupInspire

My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.

Diego Luna

TimeListeningPinkFirst TimeFirst

I've worked hard all my life.

Dawn Fraser

LifeMy LifeHardAll My LifeWorked

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

Clancy Brown

LifeFatherConfidenceSonLook

There's not a lot of time to have conversations on the field during the game. That's where the trust and the practice comes into play, through practice, through off-site throwing sessions; that's where you build that trust and build that cohesion with a wide receiver.

Brock Osweiler

TimeTrustPracticeGameYouPlay

Being funny is everything to me.

Allison Jones

FunnyMeEverythingBeing Funny

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Audre Lorde

WordsThinkGivingMythDestroyUs

When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.

Philipp Meyer

PowerBookPoliticalMomentsLook

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