Doris Roberts Quotes
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.
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I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
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I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
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I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.
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Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
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My entire life, I just wanted a pony, and I couldn't care less about a pair of shoes.
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I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.
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If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing about the teachers' strike in New York City in 1968, the middle school where events triggered that strike was a place where teachers were known to hide in their classrooms.
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Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
