Stephen Root Quotes

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

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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.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Live
  • Mind
  • May

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • Time
  • Society

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Best

• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • World
  • Knows
  • Robert W. Chambers

• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Goals
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Miss

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Different
  • Explore

• 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.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Things
  • Working
  • Once

• A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Man
  • Support
  • Pride

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • See
  • Numbers

• The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Goal
  • Human

• 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.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Cards

• My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Try

• I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

  

  James Gray
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Emotional

• I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • Nice

• There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fun

• I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Why
  • Popular

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

  

  Stephen Root
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