Paul Auster Quotes
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.Paul Auster
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I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. Abrams -
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
Dakota Fanning -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
Usher -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
Harold Hamm -
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
Adam Lambert -
It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
Zoe Sugg
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
Fidel Castro -
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Ted Cruz -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
Nate Torrence -
I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
Yuna
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People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.
Zoe Sugg -
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
Umberto Eco -
In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.
S. J. Perelman -
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.
Paul Auster