Jane Roberts Quotes
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.
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'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
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Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
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It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.
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My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.
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I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.
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My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
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I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.
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