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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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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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
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I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.
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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.
