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 go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.
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Kids are pretty brutal.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
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In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.
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I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
