Philip Roth Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
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I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.
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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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I love being around my mom and my dad.
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I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.
