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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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you see where I live. I love the environment. And - and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don't want government to put artificial standards on us.
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We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
