Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

Roz Chast

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• Caring

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• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Nature
  • Awards

• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Own
  • Limits

• My record speaks for itself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Record
  • Speaks
  • Itself

• I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.

  

  Becca Tobin
  • Music
  • Way
  • Genius

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Myself
  • Eye

• I've never been in an acting class in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Singing

• The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Sick
  • Memory

• Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Why
  • Father
  • Stop

• The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • High
  • Car
  • Better

• While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • True
  • Friend
  • Focus

• I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Optimistic

• With rebellion, awareness is born.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Born
  • Awareness
  • Rebellion

• The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Feels

• Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • People
  • Nice
  • Angel

• Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Parent
  • Circumstances
  • Caring