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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Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
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What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade.
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I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.
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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.
