Paul Auster Quotes
We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I don't really go out at all.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny.
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You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.
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I believe that change keeps you young.
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We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
