Paul Auster Quotes
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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Uday Chopra is a person who will be a part of my life for the rest of my life. He is the most amazing human being who I have ever met in my entire life - not just in India, but around the world. If anyone is his friend, that person is lucky to have him in his life.
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Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.
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When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
