Paul Theroux Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I don't like attacking.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
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When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.
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I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.
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Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.
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People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.
