Judith Rossner Quotes
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.
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I'm sure they will do better than I did. I was alone. They are a duo supported by better technology.
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Henry Miller was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
