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 talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.
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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.
