Philip Roth Quotes
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t only bombs and bullets - no, they’re little gifts, containing meanings!
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I don't focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent's fights. That gives me a good idea of his style.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.
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The thought of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni nursing secret, unfulfilled ambitions saddened Mma Ramotswe, as did the thought of people wanting something very much indeed and not getting the thing they yearned for. When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, she thought, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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God is never late, we're just impatient.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t only bombs and bullets - no, they’re little gifts, containing meanings!
