Paul Theroux Quotes

The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.

Paul Theroux

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• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Eye
  • Land

• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Career
  • Me
  • Acting

• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Art
  • War
  • Story

• The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

  

  J. F. Powers
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Enjoy

• As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Society

• In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Control
  • First
  • Standards

• We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Culture
  • Acting
  • India

• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • True

• I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Love
  • Look
  • Falling In Love

• To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Money
  • Law

• He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Pain
  • Joy

• The reproduction of labour power thus reveals as its sine qua non not only the reproduction of its ‘skills’ but also the reproduction of its subjection to the ruling ideology. ... It is in the forms and under the forms of ideological subjection that provision is made for the reproduction of the skills of labour power.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Power

• And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • People

• Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Rain

• I have stocked shelves, waited on tables, and bartended. I have been a salesperson at many levels. Each giving me a unique view of what made a company successful and, even more importantly, what made a company fail.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Giving
  • Unique

• I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

  

  Clive Owen

• National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Write
  • Identity
  • Inside

• The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.

  

  Paul Theroux