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Philip Roth Quotes

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Philip Roth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Beginning Grace Television Said Now

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.

Jerry Della Femina

People Trying You Sometimes Product

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Andrew Young

Violence Non-Violence More Than

In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows it pretty quickly. It's very open and widely supported. For males, it's not that way at all. It's sad.

Megan Rapinoe

Sad Sports Team You Gay Way

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

Jeffrey Deitch

Day You Every Day Sometimes First

In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.

John Van Hamersveld

Together Words Crazy World Face

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

Sonam Kapoor

Mountain Me Book Reading Holiday

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

Robert Dallek

History Nothing Certain

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

Robert Wilson

Money Me Theatre Speak Texas Know

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

Lisa Randall

Science Research Picture Doing You

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

Denzel Washington

Opportunity Luck You Say Along

The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.

Douglas Rushkoff

Simple Step First Step Help First

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

Drew Barrymore

Day Anger Happy Me Paths Looks