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Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1970

Topics

Marriage Father Culture Sister Wave

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Opportunity You Talk Well Absent

One day, Travi$ is going to be moving like The Beatles.

Travis Scott

Day Moving One Day Going Beatles

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Tom Lehrer

Job Writing Now Quit First Years

We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.

Robert Carlyle

Me Looking Makeup Thought She Must

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.

Robert Wilson

Life Family Woman Vacation Painting

I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch.

Jon Gruden

Energy Fighting You Sometimes Always

NAFTA was conceived to avoid discrimination against goods. A U.S.-Mexico treaty on immigration should be devised to prevent discrimination against people.

Denise Dresser

People Immigration Discrimination

When my TV show was in production, dozens of women asked me out on Facebook. Some were shy about it; some were blatant. Some I knew, some were total strangers. But they went for it.

Chris Gethard

Women Me Strangers Shy Out Facebook

We can be more inclusive.

Bobby Scott

Inclusive More

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Allan Savory

Food City World Foundation Church

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

Susanna Kearsley

Myself Me Blame Speech Down Out

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

Scott Stossel

Anxiety Sometimes Band She Stage