Paul Auster Quotes
Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Practices were tough.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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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.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.
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We talked about what it means to love without judgment, to treasure something with all its imperfections. To see the beauty in the flaws, to stand in awe of the fragile, broken people we all are. That class was a night of deep compassion.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?
