Paul Theroux Quotes

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.

Paul Theroux

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There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

Andrew Cohen

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I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Matthew Rhys

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If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

Jeb Bush

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There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

Michael Haneke

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Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Amy Alcott

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I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

Robert Webb

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

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I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

Joseph Force Crater

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I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

Brie Larson

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It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay.

Brody Armstrong

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I'd love to work with the Coen brothers. And Steven Spielberg. 'E.T.' was big for me.

Anya Taylor-Joy

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My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'

Annalena McAfee

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