Paul Auster Quotes

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • Maintenance

• If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Universe
  • Anything
  • Stand

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • England
  • Outsider

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • True
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.

  

  Berlie Doherty
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Small

• 'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

  

  James Bobin
  • Game
  • Chess

• I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Thinking
  • Fans
  • Bigs

• Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

  

  Paul Auster
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