Philip Roth Quotes
...and then this amazing creature -to whom no one has ever said 'Shah!' or 'I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!'
Quotes to Explore
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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...and then this amazing creature -to whom no one has ever said 'Shah!' or 'I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!'
