Paul Theroux Quotes

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Paul Theroux

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• It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

  

  Mae West
  • Look
  • Say
  • How

• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Information
  • Given

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• There's more to life than physical and material.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • More
  • Material

• Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Want
  • Me
  • Look

• I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Down

• Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Me
  • Hand

• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Character
  • Your

• The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Power
  • History
  • Evidence

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Career
  • Achieve
  • Overcome

• And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Hair

• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Prove
  • Dust

• Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Real
  • Character

• Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy?

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Happiness
  • Matter
  • Cutting

• We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Man
  • Hand

• We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

  

  Eduard Buchner
  • Free
  • Research
  • Appearance

• If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Go For It

• I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

  

  Jeannette Walls
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

  

  Paul Theroux