Jane Roberts Quotes
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
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You create your own reality.
