Paul Auster Quotes
Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I love football, football is my life.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
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Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.
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Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.
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As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which is entirely appropriate.
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I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
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Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.
