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.
Quotes to Explore
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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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.
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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.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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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.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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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.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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In a relationship I can influence—but not control—the thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behavior of another.
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
