Paul Theroux Quotes

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

Paul Theroux

Friend

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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Jackie Robinson
- Money
- Help
- Mother
Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

Washed Out
- People
- Art
- Help
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

Parker Posey
- Women
- Career
- Thought
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

Quincy Jones
- Kids
- Know
- Old
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

Barry Levinson
- Beginning
- Write
- Down
'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.

Maajid Nawaz
- War
- Political
- Culture