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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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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I am a Buddhist.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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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.
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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.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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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.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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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.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
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What I've found is there is no barometer that allows you to chart when you're oversaturating a desire. You're left really trying to respond on a gut level, because by the time you might do research, it's already too late. There's also a healthy tension between what are very sound business objectives and a very amorphous desire to preserve what's special.
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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
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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.
