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Paul Theroux Quotes

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Theroux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Food Grateful Travel You Late

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Jim Harrison

Book You Sometimes Write Critics

Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.

Andrew Zimmern

Cooking Control Heat Low Metal

Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

Matt Haig

Beauty Truth Writer Read Block Cure

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that.

Amitabh Bachchan

Life People Hardships Poverty Cinema

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.

Stefan Hell

Time Humble Someone Powerful Living

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

Steven Soderbergh

Fun Me Performance Things Criminal

There's a different energy at one of my shows than anybody else's.

Tory Lanez

Energy Different Than Anybody Shows

Memories are the best things in life, I think.

Romy Schneider

Life Memories Best Think Things

Throughout my life, I have always believed in love; I've always put my heart in love. But I've seen fear take people so often. It's very scary.

RuPaul

Life Love Fear Heart People My Life

I always had a fascination with music.

Miguel

Music Always Fascination Had

To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I'm interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.

Mickalene Thomas

Yourself World You Way Mysterious

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

Johnny Van Zant

Country Old Traditional Lover Marty