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.
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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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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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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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As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
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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.
