Paul Auster Quotes

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

Paul Auster

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • Character
  • Song

• I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Looking

• Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Desire
  • Need
  • Divine

• Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Different
  • Way

• To taste fully is to live fully.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Live
  • Taste
  • Fully

• As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Long
  • Working
  • I Can

• If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Find

• I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Ignorance
  • Will
  • Expose

• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • America
  • Police

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • True
  • Purpose
  • Communication

• Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Good
  • Mind

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Softball

• One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Writing
  • Psychology
  • Teen

• No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• If you ask me if I’m imagining it again, I’m going to punch you out, Dead Man Walking.” Michael raised his eyebrows and glanced at Eve. “He doesn’t sound crazy.” “Er,” she clarified, “crazier. He sounds like he’s back to normal, which is baseline crazy.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Crazy
  • Walking

• It was right after I dropped the song 'Don't,' and it started to go viral a little bit. That's when I was like, 'Alright, I might have something here.' Actually, I wasn't even going to quit my job, but Timbaland called me - we have a mutual friend - and he was like, 'Yo man, you need to work in Miami.'

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Work
  • Job
  • Song

• The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

  

  Paul Auster