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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I love Jailynn so much. She's the best daughter. I bet every dad says that.
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This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.
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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
