Quotes About Author

If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.

Paul Heyman works with Brock. The magic works between Brock and Paul because of their dynamic and their chemistry.

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

If it wasn't for Paul Brown, I probably wouldn't have a job because he basically evolved scouting.

I think the only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of his stuff - is Paul Krugman.

I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority.

I go to matches to watch players who entertain. I still watch old footage of Paul Gascoigne.

I know Chris Paul well. I have a relationship with him.

I was at home on a very rare night off and the phone rang, and the person on the other end announced themselves in a Liverpudlian accent as being Paul McCartney.

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that's something that I take very seriously.

Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens.

I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

I don't pay attention to critics.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

I pay serious attention to new artists. I pay attention to dope artists.

George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they're respected and they were twice as crazy as I'll ever be.