Paul Theroux Quotes

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

Paul Theroux

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HomeTravelPeopleFindingLandscape

I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.

Jimmy Page

LearningMusicMeAmericanAmerica

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

Joan Baez

HumbleOpinionYouBe HumbleWhy

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

John Dryden

GoodWorldLookKnowKnowingOwn

I never thought that tailoring was something that normal people did; I just thought that it was something that guys who had suits made of Italian silk depended on, and I wish someone had told me what a difference tailoring makes!

Anna Kendrick

PeopleMeThoughtSuitsWishNever

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

Jeffrey Pierce

FunThinkPresentToo MuchChristmas

There are a lot of people - and time does this - who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias and intolerance. And they're going to have to live with that; that's going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part of my legacy.

Michael Buble

LiveTimePeopleLegacyBiasGoing

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

Sojourner Truth

WomanManMeHeadPlantedCould

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Tom Hooper

HistoryYouLookEmotionsMonarchy

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

Montel Williams

GiftReachTalkAbilityMayWell

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

Jason Newsted

TimePlayRealAnythingWasteElse

I'm not a typical public school boy.

Josh Bowman

SchoolBoyPublic SchoolPublic

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

David Twohy

CharacterYourselfYouNiceActor

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