Paul Auster Quotes
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
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"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.
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I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place.
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Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
