Paul Theroux Quotes
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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.
Campbell Scott -
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.
Yayoi Kusama -
Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
Camilla Lackberg -
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie -
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.
Hamid Karzai -
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.
Kate Capshaw
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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.
Eamon de Valera -
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.
Ian MacKaye -
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
Nancy Sinatra -
I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
Sam Underwood -
It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
Pablo Sandoval
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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.
Walter Isaacson -
There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
Yossi Sarid -
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
Ziggy Marley -
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
Ram Dass -
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?
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
N. K. Jemisin
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A lot of actors flame out.
George Hamilton -
We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
Carlos Slim -
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Otto Hahn -
I think I was quite difficult to cast when I was in my twenties because I never looked like Cameron Diaz. I'm not talking myself down, but I was never going to be the romantic lead in a Hollywood blockbuster. You need better cheekbones and longer legs.
Victoria Hamilton -
Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.
Gail Collins -
Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
Paul Theroux