Paul Theroux Quotes
People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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People who label themselves as 'realists' are usually accurate - they see to the real edge of what they know, understand, or believe. At best, these folks tend to be caring worriers.
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I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
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I got rhythm,I got music,I got my manWho could ask for anything more?
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Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.
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It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
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People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
