Paul Theroux Quotes

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Paul Theroux

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PeopleWritingBookReadingAlways

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

Johannes Heesters

LifeWaitingWrongNothingLived

I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!

John C. Reilly

GoodMotherChildBrotherBabyKnow

If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used cruelty as a crass mechanism to build up his own celebrity and has utilized political correctness to protect himself while using it as a weapon to dehumanize those he doesn't agree with.

Andrew Breitbart

CultureThinkPoliticalPersonBuild

I'm following a real event and real people.

John Landis

PeopleRealReal PeopleEvent

I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

Simon Cowell

MeTearsSingingWorldBelieveYou

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

Mitch Daniels

SmokingDiligenceCitizenRealCrack

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MovementGreedyTimelessShareAbout

Arabs have the right to visit everywhere in the Land of Israel, and Jews have the right to visit every place in the Land of Israel.

Ariel Sharon

PlaceLandRightIsraelJewsVisit

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

Aung San Suu Kyi

PeopleFreeThinkThinkingStop

No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean.

Tim O'Brien

OceanWordsBoatStoryLanguage

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

Rick Mercer

StupidBoyProveConservativeAlways

So it takes years to make a solid company.

Ninette de Valois

CompanyYearsSolidMakeTakes

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