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'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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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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Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.
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Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.
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But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
