#or

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#go #going #i #just #then

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#awards #box #box office #control #critics

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#always #been #book #buying #even

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#anymore #bit #career #did #down

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #bore #characters #easy #happen

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#business #comfort #constant #constant need #get

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#more #write #writing #you

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#come #forced #place #terms #travel

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#african #annoying #being #cowboy #cowboy hat

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#cookies #disks #great #greatest #habits