Philip Roth Quotes
I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'
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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
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I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like I was a man. Before that point for some reason, I always felt I was a boy laughter. In fact, they called me the baby on the ship 'cause I was the youngest guy on the ship. But I always felt that way.
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I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
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If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.
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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
