Paul Auster Quotes
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
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He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.
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I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's something I had to work through multiple drafts to figure out.
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Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
