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Paul Auster Quotes

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Age Hate Think Want More Anything

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Happiness Simple Drink Secret Theory

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Actor Cowboy Get Easier Than

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Communication Literature Journalism

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.

Girl Dress Loved Barbie Dresses Bat

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

Life Control Think Someone Meet Hot

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

Michael N. Castle

Life Success Believe Reality Focused

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

Communication War Conflict Hair You

What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Ugly Name Young Matter Mean Complex

If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.

Think Employees You Bank Victim

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

Sylvester McCoy

Good Money Theatre Story You Play

People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.'

Stars Business Time Money Fool You

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.

Happy People Dinner New Want Legs

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