Paul Theroux Quotes
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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.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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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.
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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.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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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.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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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.
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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.
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I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.
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I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.
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I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.
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There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
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When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
