Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
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When I’m photographing I see life.
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
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It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
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The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.
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Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
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She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
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Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.
