Judith Rossner Quotes
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
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Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.
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One of these days when the air clears up And the sun come shining through We'll all be drinking free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.
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I write in what we call Hiberno-English, and it would be disastrous to lose my literary accent, as both Joyce and Beckett began to do in exile. In their case the unique tone of voice they each unwittingly adopted only made for a deeper poetic intensity; I suspect if I were to undergo a similar loss the result would not be so productive.
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All my work begins with drawings.
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The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
