Paul Auster Quotes
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'
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My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.
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I like guys who are cool and laid-back.Someone who works really hard and has goals but who I can be silly with. Looks are not important to me.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
