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.Roz Chast
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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.
Laura Linney -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
We all get self-centered.
Laura Schlessinger -
I love doing serious movies for adults.
Carla Gugino -
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
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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.
Harold Ramis -
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.
Yael Naim -
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius -
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.'
Douglas Rushkoff -
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.
Carmen Yulin Cruz -
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Andrew Denton
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Daria Werbowy is my beauty icon.
Anna Ewers -
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
James Broughton -
I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Jane McGonigal -
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?
Alex Honnold -
That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
As president, Barack Obama has the potential to finally bring our country together to meet the enormous challenges ahead. This includes restoring economic prosperity, moving toward energy independence, delivering affordable health care for all, and implementing a responsible, effective foreign policy.
Amy Klobuchar
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I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.
Anthony Hamilton -
Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
Louise Erdrich -
North Korea is looking more and more like a poor man's version of South Korea.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
Alan Cumming -
I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.
Roz Chast