Philip Roth Quotes
I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Those who go along get along.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
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For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
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I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
