Floyd Skloot Quotes
Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
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I have a great relationship with everyone in my family, but I'm closer to my brothers than anyone else because they give me a lot of guidance.
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In Germany, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The German will walk right up to that door and close it right in your face, they will lock it on the other side of that glass door with a shrug, like 'sorry'. A South Korean would never do that, ever. And, and this is what I like about them.
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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
