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.Paul Auster
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I am a Buddhist.
Orlando Bloom -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
Kapil Sibal -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
Yuna -
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
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 -
I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
J. D. Vance -
The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
Usher
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Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'
Lafcadio Hearn -
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor -
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Adam Gopnik -
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Barbara Walters -
I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
Talia Shire -
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