Roz Chast Quotes

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

Roz Chast

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SingleLinePunchJustCartoons

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

John Belushi

HappinessTimeYouWantStateGuess

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

Melanie Mayron

SchoolLearnDoingYouWantMore

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.

Robert H. Schuller

SuccessPeopleHurtProblemFind

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

Michael Azerrad

MusicWisdomPeopleAdvertisingFace

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

John Zorn

ManBarBar MitzvahHeAnybody

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

Meryl Streep

LoveGoodMotherMeActingLiving

Were the United States to pass a law requiring all cars to be methanol-capable flex-fuel vehicles, or simply repeal EPA regulations that prevent such conversions from being carried out privately, our immense natural-gas capacity could make a dramatic entrance into the liquid-fuel market.

Robert Zubrin

LawOutDramaticUnitedPassMarket

You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they've aspired to do for their whole life - can you imagine what that means for a person?

Roy Jones Jr.

LifeFightPeopleGameYouDream

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

Mary Leakey

CuriosityBeenCompelledBasically

I am, if nothing else, an optimist.

Mike Barnicle

I AmNothingOptimistElseAm

I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.

Molly Ivins

FutureChildrenClaimKinDecided

I have a thing for men's boxer briefs and a tank top. If I'm wearing them, I'm a happy gal.

Liz Vassey

MenHappyTopWearingTankThing

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