Stephen Root Quotes
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
Quotes to Explore
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
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The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
