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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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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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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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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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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Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
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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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Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
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I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
