Emma Roberts Quotes
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John Boehner is a friend.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
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You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
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I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
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See, the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.
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Just a couple of minutes ago, I signed a couple of bowling pins for some people. That's a normal thing. Somebody will hand me something and say, 'Draw a picture! Draw the Dude!' They're probably selling them on eBay or something.
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I'm obsessed with heels.
