Paul Theroux Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
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You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.
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Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
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Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.
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The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
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We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
