Philip Roth Quotes
The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.
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It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.
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So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia.
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
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All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?
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The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.
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The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.
