Paul Auster Quotes
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Stat magni nominis umbra.
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Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
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The roots of art and play lie very close together.
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To Aquinas the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part is the mind ... and its intellectual contemplation.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
