Paul Auster Quotes

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • March

• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Society
  • Fashion
  • Reflection

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Help
  • Influence
  • Legal

• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Where

• I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Sick
  • Opera
  • Soap

• You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

  

  Odell Shepard
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• Know what it is that drives you - motivates you - and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Work

• I'm not one for sitting around listening to my own music, because I tend to cringe and think that I could have done better. I also suffer from red light syndrome quite a lot. I tend to narrow my thinking when the red light goes on to record. Instead of just relaxing and playing and emoting, I think of time being wasted so I won't take a chance on something. Consequently, when I hear it back, I think, "Why the hell did I play it so safe on that piece of music when I could have really opened up?" Well, it's because of not wanting to make a mistake.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Thinking
  • Suffering
  • Mistake

• I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Good
  • Listening

• I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

  

  Elvis Costello

• I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Book
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