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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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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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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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no audience.
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I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.
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But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.
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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.
