Philip Roth Quotes

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

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• Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Sleep
  • Mood

• The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Like
  • Problems
  • Cultural

• I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Happy
  • Free

• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Alone

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Kitchen
  • Opening

• My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • Control
  • Fall

• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Up
  • Law
  • Rules

• I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Regret
  • Wonderful
  • Minute

• Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Love
  • Say
  • Best Father

• 'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Character
  • Amazing

• One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Best
  • Limit

• One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Doing
  • Self

• It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Character
  • Interesting

• You need to get in studio; we're excited about the Pay 1 opportunity with Disney because those movies are not just movies. They're amazing family content that get flexed over and over again, forms great loyalty with our subscribers, and it's a real trust brand for parents as well.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Partner

• I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Relationship

• Alas, love is too regional.

  

  Alamgir Hashmi
  • Love
  • Regional

• Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Experience
  • Kind
  • Artist

• I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Show

• The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • World
  • Right
  • Interference

• Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

  

  Philip Roth