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Anne Roiphe Quotes

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality:
Birth: December 25, 1935

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Me Desert Planning Island Take Read

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

Myself Start Tough Think Play Film

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

People Random Think Details Weird

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

Art Book Camera Philosophy Artist

I used to listen to a lot of music in my studio - all the time. But as far as the music that interplays with my work, what I've done and still do is keep a lyric book and song title. The material typically comes from Eartha Kitt, Betty Davis, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston.

Mickalene Thomas

Work Music Time Song Book Summer

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

Work People Energy You Always See

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Friendship Happiness Self Place True

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

Father I Am Me Single Guns Own

In my early twenties, the whole experience of going on tour was like losing myself in this slightly wild environment.

Myself Experience Losing Early Wild

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

Good Heart Voice Bad Screaming

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

New Human Rights Human Rights Idea

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

Failure Great Man Weakness Credit

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Great Me Dream Forget Out Anything

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