Paper Quotes - Page 24

• My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

  Loretta Lynn

  Mother, Wall, Names

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• The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

  Yang Wanli

  Men, Doe, Poet

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• Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

  Ryan Giggs

  Dad, Player, People

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice Guy Finishes First" By Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

  Lou Holtz

  Country, Athlete, Player

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• I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Taken, Heart

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• Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Mother, Law, Cuckoos

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• Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing.

  Halle Berry

  Looks, Way, Scripts

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• No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.

  Serena Williams

  Looks, Papers

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• I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him.

  Alex Ferguson

  Morning, Jobs, Lying

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• I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper.

  Wendell Pierce

  Book, Writing, Editors

  Source: collider.com

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• I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Tea, Panic, Cups

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]

  Jeff Vespa

  Kids, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

  David Ayer

  Life Is, Sheets, Blank

  Source: collider.com

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• I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Moving, Writing, Artist

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

  Nicki Minaj

  Men, White, Green

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• Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

  Morris Kline

  Practice, Should Have, No Hope

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• LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

  Raymond Chandler

  Heart, Cups

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• Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything. S/he is just a stooge for management, leading you down more rabbit holes of options for things called Wizards, Macros, Templates, and Cascading Style Sheets.

  Louis Menand

  Style, Trying, Ark

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• The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.

  David Gelernter

  Media, Ideas, Office

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• We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

  Scot McKnight

  Differences, Persons, Asks

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• Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Pencils

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• It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

  Lars von Trier

  Stupid, Writing, Car

  "Lars Von Trier, The Boss Of It All". Interview with Nick Dawson, filmmakermagazine.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Prayer, Wall, Mean

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• No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Joy, Complaining

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