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.
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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.
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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.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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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.
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'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.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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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.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.
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Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets.
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One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
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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.
