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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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Elvis Costello -
There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
Fairfield Porter -
It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.
John Gemberling -
Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.
William Zabka -
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