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Philip Roth Quotes

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 19, 1933 - May 22, 2018

Topics

Daily Time Baseball Writing You

When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.

People You Wall Say Expert China

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

Will Way Him Destroy Himself Obama

To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.

Age Best Soul School Economics Gold

The ranking never lies.

Never Lies Ranking

The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.

Work Best Strong Metaphor Songs

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

People Guitar Band Inspired Up Join

The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself.

Life Time Kind Ability Obstacle Own

A shootout is a shootout. You go in and get the bad guys.

You Bad Go Get Bad Guys Guys

Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.

Culture Struggle American Powerful

My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do it.'

Wife New York Amazing Me Talking

Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.

Sitcom Contrived Incredibly

I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.

Atticus Shaffer

Now Horror Way Sense Saw Like

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