Paul Theroux Quotes
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
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I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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Because of the way we work together, there's never any chance of the band breaking up. We know each other so well and we get on really well together.
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To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
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In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
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I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
