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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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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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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Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.
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I support parents making the best decisions for their kids' education.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
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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.
