Paul Theroux Quotes

The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times.

Paul Theroux

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The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I'll just drink water, or maybe I'll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I'll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week.

Jinder Mahal

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My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

Joey Bishop

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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

John Cleese

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The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Max Irons

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For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

Anna Gunn

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Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

Steve Guttenberg

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Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

Amanda de Cadenet

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I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well.

Sophie Pascoe

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My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

Chris Gardner

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I'm an artist; I love everyone.

Chris Zylka

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I love a good challenge of looking with new eyes at a tried and true recipe in my recipe Rolodex.

Christina Tosi

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In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. So don't be afraid to ask - the worst you can hear is 'no.'

Christine Tsai

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