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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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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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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Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.
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There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.
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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.
