Paul Auster Quotes

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

Jesmyn Ward

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I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.

John Varvatos

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I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

Christina Aguilera

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I was in New York and was pursuing musical theater, and it didn't feel right. I felt I was forcing myself to do things and be things that I wasn't, all the time. I wasn't listening to what I wanted to do. I was listening to what I thought I should do.

Briga Heelan

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I have my parents to keep me in check, a team that loves me, and I have the ability to go out there, dream, and chase it.

Brian Ortega

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Our target is to win, not to try to make all the players happy.

Antonio Conte

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Creative collaboration is awesome.

Alicia Silverstone

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I don't like baggy clothes.

Playboi Carti

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The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change.

Shawn Achor

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Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

Ryan Giggs

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Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.

Linda Colley

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'OLTL' was a bootcamp for me, and I was lucky to be a part of it. It was a great experience and met great long-term friends from it.

Lenny Platt

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