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Paul Theroux Quotes

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Passion Travel People Curiosity Want

I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.

Life Love Music Morning Passion Sad

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

Words Writing Drunk Drink Away Get

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.

Time Curious Memory Me Gentleman

I've got a personal trainer, and I train three times a week.

Week Train Three Personal Trainer

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Father Children Walk Soul Poetry

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

Mistakes Me Present I Can Sarcastic

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Mary Lou Retton

Experience Know Over Planet Big

Every career thing I do can't be perfect and sometimes my decisions are wrong.

Decisions Perfect Career Wrong Every

From abundance springs satiety.

Abundance Springs

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Success Long You Way Overnight Give

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

Cake Sweet Building Wedding Star He

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

Age Start You Young Movies Become

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