Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.
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You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.
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It's just working people one by one, one at a time.
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In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.
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Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
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I think some teams shied away because of it, ... But Minnesota stuck with me and I was happy about that.
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I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
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That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.
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What people say, it shouldn't matter. They're going to hype whoever they're going to hype - some deservedly so. But it shouldn't affect one player's performance or passion for the game.
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When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.
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In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.
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Anybody that says different is selling something.
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As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
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Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
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I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.
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When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
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Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects with no dream of anything, it was in my formatting when i got older and started talking to my friends about how I felt, they would be like, "dude, that's funny." Then one day my friend was like, "Dude, you don't understand how funny you are, you need to do standup"!
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Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover when unexpected events occur. If you don’t always try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
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Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.
