Paul Auster Quotes
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Quotes to Explore
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.
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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
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I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
