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Paul Di Filippo Quotes

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Paul Di Filippo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 29, 1954

Topics

Trying More Never Everything Readers

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

John Banville

Me Perfect I Can Create Try Up

A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.

Joel Kinnaman

Friends Become Criminals Lot Had

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

Mayim Bialik

School Acting Started Because Plays

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Robert Griffin III

Life Football I Am Me Start Game

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

Amy Klobuchar

Life Childhood Child Fighting Worry

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Simon Newcomb

School Graduation Degree University

You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

Jonathan Krisel

You Person Tell Comedians Like Lot

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

Dennis Muren

Work Think You Important Talk See

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

Denzel Washington

Good Opportunity Black You White

I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

Chuck Liddell

Love Never Paid Expected Complaints

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

Armand Assante

Gangster Become Italian Form Thing

For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

Willow Bay

Marriage Women Children Parents Down