Jane Roberts Quotes
There aren't any even halfway reasonable dogmas around nowadays, not one that doesn't offend or outrage either the intellect or the intuitions.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.
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He wos wery good to me, he wos!
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It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.
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I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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There aren't any even halfway reasonable dogmas around nowadays, not one that doesn't offend or outrage either the intellect or the intuitions.
