Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I'm like this. When I feel something, I want to do something, I do it - I just do it. So I'm like this also in my life: if I want to wear some crazy clothes, I put it on.
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I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
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The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
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A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.
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Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.
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I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
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There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
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My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.
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I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.
