Roz Chast Quotes

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

Roz Chast

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MotherMeInterestingWaySheHer

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

Steven Johnson

LifeLoveMeetingsMy LifeDoing

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Ron Chernow

FaithGreatMoneyBondWorthYou

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I AmThinkPersonNowPrivate Person

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

Mary Daly

CreativityReligionCreativeBackUs

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

Michelle Gomez

AmbitionSoupStrategyYouBackGo

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

Jonathan Demme

GodTodayTimeWorldStoryYou

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.

Donnie Wahlberg

GoWildStageImageUpPretend

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

Dorothea Dix

DareWorshipTalentsAlmostMourn

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

WomenMenPoliticsLettersVoteOut

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.

Alice Temperley

WomanFashionThinkEleganceShe

I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.

Penelope Cruz

GoodMyselfTrustThinkThoughtWay

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Richard Branson

LongBathAliveNiceNowRight

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