Jane Roberts Quotes
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.
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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
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A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
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I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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I'm actual thankful for the amount of responsibility that has been handed to me. I feel very honored.
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The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.
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I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
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People dont pay attention until they have to
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Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
