Paul Theroux Quotes
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I was a total dork in high school.
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I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
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Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.
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It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.
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Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.
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I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
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Love doesn't last.
