Paul Beatty Quotes - Page 3

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• I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.

  Paul Beatty

  Trying, Loner

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• There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in a seminar if I have to, but with a workshop, I try to put myself in the circle somewhere. Because that hopefully frees up some people by making somebody else sit at the nominal head of the table.

  Paul Beatty

  Class, Circles, People

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• If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there .

  Paul Beatty

  Home, Reason Why, Good And Bad

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• I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.

  Paul Beatty

  California, Littles

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• I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.

  Paul Beatty

  Beautiful, New York, California

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• I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

  Paul Beatty

  Men, He Man, Prize

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• My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and she's fiercely independent, and you know this book was a hard sell. No one wanted to buy this book. But she did, and so it's paid off for her, I hope.

  Paul Beatty

  Book, Independent, Years

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• I just rode cross-country and the thing I noticed is just how afraid everyone is, and how nervous and scared and angry people are. From my point of view, I don't think it's all necessarily justified, but I think that's easy for me to say.

  Paul Beatty

  Country, Thinking, Views

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• I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

  Paul Beatty

  Self, Promoters, Fortunate

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• Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

  Paul Beatty

  Nice, Book, Thinking

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• I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.

  Paul Beatty

  Italian, Want, Stuff

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• If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

  Paul Beatty

  Doors, World, Want

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• I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

  Paul Beatty

  Sure Love, Black, Chinese

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