Paul Auster Quotes
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.
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2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.
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Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.
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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
