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.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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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.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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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.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I was waiting for L.A. to always become something important. I gave up... I left in 1974.
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Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.
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Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
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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.
