Paul Auster Quotes
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.Paul Auster
Quotes to Explore
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
Jack Ma -
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing -
I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
Tawakkol Karman -
I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
Eddie Huang -
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd -
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
Kailash Kher
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
Eddie Murphy -
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld -
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Hanna Rosin -
I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
Edgar Winter -
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
Utada Hikaru -
What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
Rand Paul -
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
Adam Arkin -
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
Naomi Klein -
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.
Virginia Woolf -
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Paul Auster