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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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.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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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.
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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.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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The fans treated me royally.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I do think that all of us think in poems.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.
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I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.
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I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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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.
