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Paul Fleischman Quotes

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

Paul Fleischman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1952

Topics

People Direction Facts Adapt Same

Anyone who's gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, 'Woo-hoo! I'm going to travel.' And I opened it up. It said, 'Born in Iran.' I'm like, 'Oh, come on, man!'

Travel Man American America Remember

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

John Henrik Clarke

People I Have Learned Know Damn

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

Matthew Morrison

You Perfect Person Play Want Cares

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Conflict Society Present Violence

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Passion Trying Actor Never Out

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Protect Writer Inform Reader Written

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

Christopher Moore

Way Always Used Generations Been

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Character Humor Look Edge Kind More

Tell me one director who will go on record to say that I don't get along with them? I get along famously with all my directors because I am what I am today because of them.

Today I Am Me I Am What I Am Go Say

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

Conservative More Europe United Much

I am a variety machine; I look for variety in my characters, and an extra edge in the characterisation helps in bringing out a better performance.

I Am Performance Better Look Edge

I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.

I Am People Me Name Choice Personal

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