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Paul Theroux Quotes

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Better Strive Days Cannot Make Them

I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

I Am Political Because Politician Am

Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.

Family Money Me Friends Problem Bad

In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later, his successors were also expected to sit by the phone.

Day Man Phone Washington Worthy Sit

If we lost, then who won? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

Win House Defeat Surrender Lost

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

People World Famous Go Want Cafe

My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.

Life Ideas Direction Plan You Know

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.

Man Body Complicated More Bisexual

More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is just another tool in the developer's toolbox to draw the player further into the game.

Music Water Moment Game You Sound

Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

Great Day Excellence Football Fight

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

Age Alone Creative Process Touch

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

People Me Hair You Pool Want

Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

Work Stars I Am Way More Top

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