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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I hope that I serve by being a teacher.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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We Jews have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity.
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A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.
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I think it's a shame when pop culture forgets that theatricality is a big part of it. When Neil Young is fumbling around in his pocket looking for the right harmonica, it doesn't matter that he's a dude in the hat who is a man of the people - there's a theatricality there. You don't have to be David Bowie or the Kabuki theater to have that theatricality going on.
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The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.
