Paul Theroux Quotes
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.
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Defending is mostly about focus.
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I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
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I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
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I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
