Quotes
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Paul F. Tompkins
"In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it." --
Source : "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.
Paul F. Tompkins
#Downtown Quotes
#Teens Quotes
#Phases Quotes
“I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.”
“Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.”
Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
“Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.”
Source : "U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards" by Gina McCarthy, money.cnn.com. November 26, 2014.
“I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.”
Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“You do your best work when you feel safe.”
“I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.”
“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”