Paul Theroux Quotes
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
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I was on Twitter right in the first couple months that it was out.
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I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
