Paul Auster Quotes
In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
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The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
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It's very easy to listen to one comment and make a snap judgment.
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In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."
