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Paul Theroux Quotes

I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Year Place Leaving Never Without

I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.

Age Myself Think Wrong Place Will

I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.

Stephanie Beatriz

School High School Think First High

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'

Mother Live King Reading Story Play

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

World Facts Learn Trouble Awareness

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Common Sense Back House White Sense

As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.

Strength War World Victory Energy

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

People Someone Run Eat Meat Idea

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Path World Environment Contact Her

In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.

Waiting People You Lights Up Things

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

Think Always Tomboy Younger I Think

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

You Matter Matters Coming Going

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

Day Looking Think You Look See

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