Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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Cynthia: To be honest, I've been rethinking things lately. I mean, I'm still a Christian, but I'm definitely transitioning.Janis: Really? Is your mom letting you do hormones? Mine won't.
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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
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The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.
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The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.
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I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
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I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
