Paul Auster Quotes
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
Paul Auster
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
M. C. Gainey
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
Pat Robertson
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
Edmund Phelps
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
G. Willow Wilson
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
Taylor Hicks
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Raghuram Rajan
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
Dan Stevens
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
E. L. Doctorow
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
Adam Hamilton
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
Yair Lapid
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
Dana Hill
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
Kapil Dev
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The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.
Marianne Williamson
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I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
LeRoy Neiman
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There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
Paul Auster
