Philip Roth Quotes
My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
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The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.
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I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
