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Paul F. Tompkins
"I like working in television a lot. It's nice to have a place to go every day and a group of people to hang out with and work alongside with a common goal. But I think I'll always love stand-up more, because there's so much to discover. But you cannot beat television money with a stick. Not with a stick." --
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Paul F. Tompkins
#Nice Quotes
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“Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?”
“A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.”
“My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.”
“When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.”
“I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.”
“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.”
“Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.”
“It's not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, "This is good, let's try it like this." I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, "That's good, that's good." That's very frustrating because - it's nice to know something is good but you know it can always change.”