Paul Theroux Quotes

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Paul Theroux

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• It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Today
  • Road
  • End

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Athlete

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Reason
  • Interest
  • Impact

• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Me
  • Democracy

• It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Support
  • End
  • Complex

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Done
  • High

• Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Dad
  • Car
  • Brother

• What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Character
  • City

• It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward.

  

  Diplo
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• The financing of my films has always been international.

  

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

• Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

  

  Paul Theroux
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