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Paul Theroux Quotes

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 10, 1941

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Story Write Hong Kong Knew Set Once

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

Rose World Cold Facts Temptation

If science doesn't convince you, just Google 'cheating politicians' for the long and sordid list of men - like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Sanford, and John Edwards - whose hormones got the best of them.

Science Best Men Cheating Long You

I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.

Food Cash Working Like Making

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

Government American You Goal I Can

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

School Why Never Metal Understood

I'm a little devil.

It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.

Rest Remember You Born Important

I put on muscle really quick.

Muscle Quick Really Put

I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

Day Voting Help Every Day Champions

Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it's the end of the world. But 'Bird Box' hasn't convinced me of that. Is 'Bird Box' instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don't think so. But it's fun to consider.

Bird Fun Me World Think End

My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.

Music Library Place Worship Over

For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated.

Me Feel Someone Role Model Role

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