David Roberts Quotes
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.
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I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
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If I don't trim the upper lip, my wife wouldn't kiss me. You have to take into account her needs as well.
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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
