Paul Auster Quotes
Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
Paul Auster
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Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
Kabir Bedi
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
Vince Lombardi
People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.
Nicki Minaj
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
Bruce Anthony Johannesson
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
T. S. Eliot
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
Pyotr Ouspensky
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
P. G. Wodehouse
The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
Ben Harper
You are very familiar with western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple - sometimes naive. Understand, or not?
Jiang Zemin
I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.
George Frideric Handel
