Paul Theroux Quotes
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.
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Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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He has so many creations, and yet He never forgets me, but I only have One Creator, and I’ve forgotten him countless times.
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My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
