Paul Auster Quotes

I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.

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• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
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• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
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• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
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• If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Car
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• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
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• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
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• There will never be talking pictures.

  

  D. W. Griffith
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• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
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• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
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• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

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• I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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• There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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  • Serious

• Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
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• Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

  

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  • Life
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• I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Serious