Paul Theroux Quotes
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
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The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.
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ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
