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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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
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If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
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Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
