Paul Theroux Quotes
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
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Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
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I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.
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I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.
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In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors.
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Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
