Paul Auster Quotes
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I write novels and other things.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.
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Sometimes, I would love to record a super – quiet album, but for some reason, I never really got to that because my heart lies with the heavy stuff.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
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Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.
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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
