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With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.


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PAUL WATSON Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
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PAUL KEATING Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
PAUL THEROUX A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I...
PAUL THEROUX Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
PAUL THEROUX Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
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