Paul Theroux Quotes
I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.
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We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
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I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.
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I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
