Paul Theroux Quotes
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
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Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
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When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.
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Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
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I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
