Jill Robinson Quotes
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.
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People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.
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Scientists are an agnostic lot, of course-well, most educated people are, aren’t they?
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Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
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People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
