Paul Theroux Quotes

I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

Paul Theroux

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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.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Culture
  • You

• 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.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Community
  • Process
  • News

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Think
  • Way
  • Resignation

• Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

  

  Wale
  • Great
  • Art
  • Rapper

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.

  

  Babyface
  • Love
  • Song
  • Falling In Love

• 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.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • First
  • Anything
  • Before

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Home
  • House
  • Design

• Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Play
  • Luck

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Oliver North
  • Real
  • American
  • Government

• I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Dress
  • Nerd
  • Huge

• I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Respect
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

  

  Claudia Black
  • Believe
  • Trust

• I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Rose

• My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Husband
  • Leaving

• All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you’ll fly like me.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Fly

• I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Leaving