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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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
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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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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of their mindset and convinced that it's the only reality. I find that worrying.
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Women: you never know which side they want to dance on.
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Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
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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
