Paul Auster Quotes
It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
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It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
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[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
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Love is the mystery of divine revelations!
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Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
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It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.
