Paul Auster Quotes

Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

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• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

  

  Dani Shapiro
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  • Father
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• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
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• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • People
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  • New York

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  

  Ted Turner
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• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
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• If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
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• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

  

  Patrick MacGill
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• Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.

  

  Young Thug
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• Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
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• When you work on a film, it's important to feel that you are starting afresh and doing it for the first time. Also, it's important to have those butterflies in your stomach; you need to wonder how you are going to approach the character and whether you will be able to do justice to the part.

  

  Deepika Padukone
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• If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either.

  

  Nicki Minaj
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  • Hate
  • I Hate You

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.

  

  Pam Farrel
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• Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

  

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