Philip Roth Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.
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Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.
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The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
