Philip Roth Quotes
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.Philip Roth
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy -
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
Inge de Bruijn -
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
Nancy Gibbs -
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
Pat Metheny
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
Warren Farrell -
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White -
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
S. Jay Olshansky -
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
T.I. -
If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
Quavo Migos -
Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston -
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
M. Night Shyamalan -
There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
Idina Menzel -
It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
Manal al-Sharif -
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey -
We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
Becky Lynch
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
Peter Dinklage -
Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.
Peter Welch -
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
Ernest Hemingway -
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
Erica Jong -
It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
Natassia Malthe -
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
Philip Roth