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.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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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.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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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.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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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.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
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We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.
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The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
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It's really humbling to be acknowledged by such established names like CMT and Billboard.
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See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.
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The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
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I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
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I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.
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I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.
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Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
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Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.
