Paul Auster Quotes
When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.Paul Auster
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Babasaheb -
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Fetty Wap -
I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
Felicity Jones -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
Karin Slaughter
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Pat Cash -
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian -
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Zach Johnson The Fray
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
Mahmoud Abbas -
You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
Action Bronson -
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
Malala Yousafzai -
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
Karen Abbott -
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
Cameron Crowe -
You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
Larry Wilmore
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But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.
Lita Ford -
For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.
Lynn Nottage -
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
Marcy Kaptur -
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.
Charlotte Dacre -
When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.
Paul Auster