Paul Auster Quotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
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A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.
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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
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Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
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My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
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We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.
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The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
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The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.
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When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
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I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
