Philip Roth Quotes
I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
Quotes to Explore
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
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Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.
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Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
