Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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(論國民黨) 有很多的頑固分子，他們是頑固專門學校畢業的。他們今天頑固，明天頑固，後天還是頑固。什麼叫頑固？固者硬也，頑者，今天、明天、後天都不進步之謂也。這樣的人，就叫做頑固分子。要使這樣的頑固分子聽我們的話，不是一件容易的事情。
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Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
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I know there is strength in the differences between us,And I know there is comfort where we overlap.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.
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I do not believe in planning.
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The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.
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First-round matches are always tough.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
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In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
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My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.
