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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The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
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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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There's a perpetual duel going on between the world of the spirit and the world of things. Although the one only has meaning in relation to the other.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.
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The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.
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Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.
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I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.
