Paul Theroux Quotes
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.
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I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.
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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
