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Paul Theroux Quotes

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People Think Never Books Who Read

What you find with really good directors is that they kind of leave you alone. They've hired you because they know the kind of work you do and the sense of how you'd approach it. So usually, they'll just stand back and maybe give you a nudge once in a while in terms of something specific they might want in a particular scene.

Work Good Alone Stand You Find

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

Home Experience Feel Loving Film

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

Opinion Internet You Know Strange

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Soul Man World Nothing Give Whole

I'm not exactly the best capitalist ever.

Best Ever Capitalist Exactly

We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.

Democracy Build Will Critics Defend

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Respect Balance Sympathy Injustice

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

Work Age Wine New Say Digital

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

Christopher Walken

Believe I Believe Lucky I Believe In

When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that.

Hand Kid Over Air Years Up

I'd rather enjoy meals, order bottles of red wine and eat creme brulee at the end of dinner. Then, when they call you for a photo shoot, you just go, 'Okay, time to hit the treadmill.'

Time Red Dinner End Wine Enjoy

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

Politics School War News Come Only

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