Paul Theroux Quotes
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
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When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
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I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.