Paul Auster Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
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I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
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The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
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In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
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It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
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My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.
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I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.
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I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.
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The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.
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My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.
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For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
