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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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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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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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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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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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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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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I think I'd make a pretty good girlfriend.
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Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
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When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.
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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.
