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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I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.
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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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In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
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Every human can be a wizard.
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