Paul Auster Quotes

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

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• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
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• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
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• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

  

  Ian McShane
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• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
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• We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.

  

  Adam Ferrara
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• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
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• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
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• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
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• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• I don't think that having a family changes the way we tour as much as it just changes the personal perspective on wanting to get finished with the tour, or the reason you've got to go out and bring home the bacon, that kind of stuff.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
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• Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
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• Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

  

  Paul Auster
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