Joshua Roman Quotes
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I know all the critics.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
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Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
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One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
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My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
