Paul Auster Quotes
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies - such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.
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I like having the space of my own project.
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Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.
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With regards to the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, I believe it lacks a balanced approach. It designates 79,000 acres as new wilderness while only opening up 6,000 acres for recreation.
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I wouldn't mind taking a stab at... I'd love to take a shot at 'Doctor Strange' at some point.
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
