Paul Auster Quotes
I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.
Quotes to Explore
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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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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.
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My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.
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I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.
