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.
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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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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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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.
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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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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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Dance is my passion.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
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Scarborough never really began to live until the summer of 1964 when the Beatles played the Futurist Theatre, and no one in the audience, least of all me, heard anything but the screaming.
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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.
