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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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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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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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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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
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Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
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I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.
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I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.
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Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.
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I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
