Paul Auster Quotes
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
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Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.
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I leaned too early. I was running, I looked across, I realised I was going to win - the thought I was on for a world record entered my mind - I reached for the line when I should have stayed straight.
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Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
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Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York - Mel Brooks when he just got out of New York was doing 'Blazing Saddles;' when he left New York he started doing stuff like 'Robin Hood Men In Tights' - he was in L.A. too long. He lost the edge.
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
