Paul Theroux Quotes

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

Paul Theroux

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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

Dabney Coleman
- Me
- Say
- Well
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

Mamie Gummer
- School
- College
- New York
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

Park Shin-hye
- Marriage
- Thought
- Year
My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

Eddie Marsan
- Time
- Different
- Done
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie
- Age
- Reason
- Poetry
We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Pablo Picasso
- Grow
- Older