Paul Auster Quotes
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.Paul Auster
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
Baz Luhrmann -
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
Sam Crawford -
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
Larry Wall -
I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
Kate Moss -
I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
Rachele Brooke Smith -
The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
Nancy A. Collins
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar -
I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. Williams -
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
Salma Hayek -
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Sally Field -
I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
Narendra Modi -
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
Ian Smith -
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
Tammy Baldwin
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Music is my home.
Jennifer Hudson -
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Jeremy Northam -
Patronage during the Renaissance was considered quite a responsible affair. Philanthropists supported artists, believed in them and never allowed themselves to interfere directly with the creative process of people of art. I myself profess similar principles in the field of cooperation with outstanding cultural figures.
Alisher Usmanov -
What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
James F. Byrnes -
I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.
Paul Auster