Paul Theroux Quotes
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I like to discover new things.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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I love a nice tailored suit, but I also like to dress down. It all depends on what mood I'm in.
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Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
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'Enlarge my life with multitude of days!'In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:Hides from himself his state, and shuns to knowThat life protracted is protracted woe.
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
