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.
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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.
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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.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
Taylor Kinney
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When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
Jocelyn Moorhouse
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It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
Reese Hoffa
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When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
William Nicholson
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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
Italo Calvino
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When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
Paul Theroux
