Paul Auster Quotes
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
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True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
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Bernard Leach talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."
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Mine has been a pretty strange path.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
