We expect our movie stars to do extraordinary things, because they're iconic. But to capture the measure of achievement of those people on that airplane, it was essential to believe they were as ordinary as you or I.


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I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll pla...
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Neth...
PAUL THEROUX
Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting e...
PAUL FEIG
When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.
PAUL O'GRADY
I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedica...
PAUL MERTON
There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per...
PAUL MERTON
If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense...
PAUL STAMETS
The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing hi...
PAUL MANAFORT
Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media ...
PAUL MANAFORT
If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I&...
PAUL RYAN
The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. Pe...
PAUL RYAN
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew...
PAUL FARMER
These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in tea...
PAUL CELLUCCI
As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But w...
PAUL TONKO
Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute supp...
PAUL TONKO
The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
GABE PAUL
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only...
PAUL O'NEILL
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks ag...
PAUL BEGALA
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could...
PAUL WALKER
By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou...
SEAN PAUL
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it...
PAUL WELLER
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an...
PAUL HAWKEN
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL
Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served severa...
PAUL STAMETS
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
PAUL WHITEMAN
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y...
PAUL GOODMAN
The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its...
PAUL DAVIES
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ...
PAUL NEWMAN
There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it ...
PAUL EENHOORN