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Paul Auster Quotes

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1947

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Work Food Money Poetry Table Kind

If I'm man-to-man with a linebacker, well, that's an automatic win because I can run by him. If I'm one-on-one against a corner, I'm gonna catch it all day, because I'm twice his size.

Jimmy Graham

Day Win I Can Run Him Size

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Jim Caviezel

Good Evil World Make

I just really try to stay focused on what the material is wanting to do. My basic assumption is that no one will ever listen to it anyway. It's fidelity to the material. That's my contract: It's me and the material. And if it connects with other people, I'm thrilled.

Max Richter

Stay Focused People Me Focused Try

The shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.

Jeffrey Tambor

Clothes You Old Years Tricky Any

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

Jean Giraudoux

Woman Man Ask Soldier Merit Any

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

Johnnie Cochran

Day People Black Every Day Sit

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

Communication People World Saying

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mike Leigh

Work Intelligence Resilience Selfish

I'm lucky because my two best friends are from kindergarten so they never thought that it was a big deal that I was in acting; they don't even ever talk about it. They still act all confused, like, 'What's going on?' when we go places and people come up to me.

Miranda Cosgrove

Best People Me Thought Confused Go

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

Liv Tyler

Time Diet Healthy First Time First

There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.

Dilip Shanghvi

Cap No Sense Tool Excited Market

When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!

Daymond John

Money Miami Weekend Bright First