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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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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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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And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.
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People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.
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A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
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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.
