Eric Roth Quotes

#1. Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

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#2. The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

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#3. When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.

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#4. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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#5. She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

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#6. Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

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#7. You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

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#8. Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

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#9. It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.

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#10. I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

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#11. Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

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#12. You never know what's coming for you.

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