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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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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Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
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When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling.
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I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
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There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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...absolutely no alert measures ... are necessary at this time or contemplated.
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
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I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.
