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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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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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.
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Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
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Alas! we wake: one scene alone remains, -The exiles by the streams of Babylon.
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I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
