Philip Roth Quotes
That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.Philip Roth
Quotes to Explore
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
Kangana Ranaut -
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks -
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell -
I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
Sally Kirkland -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
Tamra Davis -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton -
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly -
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie -
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold S. Geneen -
Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf -
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
Zainab Salbi -
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
Lamar Alexander -
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
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I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead -
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
Karin Slaughter -
I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.
L.A. Paul -
I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn -
Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
Astro Teller -
That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.
Philip Roth