Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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We all get self-centered.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
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Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'
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You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.
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If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
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Daria Werbowy is my beauty icon.
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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
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People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.
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Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.
