Philip Roth Quotes
Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.

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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.
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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
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The room is the most important thing about recording.
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'And now,' cried Max, 'let the wild rumpus start!'
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Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.