Paul Theroux Quotes

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Doing

• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Old

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Distance
  • Now

• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • American
  • English
  • Born

• We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • War
  • Future
  • Democracy

• Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Drama
  • Moment

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
  • Power
  • True
  • Knowledge

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • College

• I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Work
  • Why
  • Hate

• If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Mind
  • Humanity

• There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

  

  Mark Carwardine
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Imagination

• You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

  

  Paul Theroux
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  • May
  • Attention