Paul Bowles Quotes
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
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Music is how you feel.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.
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It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.
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And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a certain heritage from the past towards religion as having to do with how we orientate ourselves to the future, to all we truly long for, to hope.
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I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.
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I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.
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The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.
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p. 148
