Julia Roberts Quotes
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
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It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.
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In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
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But I got this far, didn’t I?” he said slowly. “They thought I’d die in the attempt, but I’m here . . . and you’re in my power. . . . I’m the one with the wand. . . . you’re at my mercy. . .
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I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.
