Paul Auster Quotes

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
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• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
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• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
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• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
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  • Forty

• Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.

  

  Raf Simons
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  • World
  • Work

• I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

  

  J. D. Vance
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  • Head
  • Intellectual

• What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.

  

  Pinetop Perkins
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• Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.

  

  Darin Strauss
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• For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• The funny thing is, people only know me for having straight hair for work, but I live in Atlanta where it's hot and humid in the summertime. So when I'm home, I wear my hair natural. My hair is naturally curly; I don't have a relaxer.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
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• Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

  

  Paul Auster
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