Paul Auster Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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We really don't discover fully what 'Westworld' is for this first season, until we get there. The first 10 episodes are the journey. The colors become brighter, the vistas become clearer, and the history is more understood with each step we take along the way.
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You don't need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It's all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy.
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I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.
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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
