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Philip Roth Quotes

I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Future Culture American Finding

With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to his country.

Character Identity You Country Who

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Abstract Painter Rotten Wanted

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

Wife Lion Never Attractive Social

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

Robert Rodriguez

Life Eyes Sleep Better My Life You

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

Humor Well Universally Does Farce

I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.

Family Love Heart Think American

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Opportunity People Think Criticism

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

Admit Important Thirty Difficulties

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

Annette Funicello

Always Illness Progressive Ms Really

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

William H. Macy

Say Yes Rewrite Based Script

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Enemy Cyber Without Being Able Them

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

Change Moment Experience Me Wish

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