Paul Auster Quotes
I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.
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To this day, I'm against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it's an all-volunteer organization.
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I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
