Jane Roberts Quotes
You usually think . . . that your feelings about a given event are primarily reactions to the event itself. It seldom occurs to you that the
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
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I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.
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We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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There is a great Man living in this country - a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Perhaps the chief requirement of the conductor is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.'
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Computer scientists have been working on finding this balance for more than fifty years. They even have a name for it: the explore/exploit tradeoff.
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I love Amy Winehouse. I'm obsessed with her, I think she's brilliant. And Ed Sheeran is just my all-time fave.
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There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.
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War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.
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Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
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You usually think . . . that your feelings about a given event are primarily reactions to the event itself. It seldom occurs to you that the
