Jane Roberts Quotes
Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
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Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
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We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
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Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.
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Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
