Philip Roth Quotes
And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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Every film is hard to fund.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
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Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.
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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.
