Paul Auster Quotes
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.
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Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.
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What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.
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I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
