Paul Auster Quotes
I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .
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You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.
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Our huge infrastructure that we need for keeping cash is very expensive.
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The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.
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I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
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I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.
