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'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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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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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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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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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan in 1998 as only 'pounding sand.'
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My opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that, I'll give it to probably boxing.
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I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
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I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
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Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
