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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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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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 it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
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I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.
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I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.
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I want to do things right. I really, really do.
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I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.
