Julia Roberts Quotes
You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Reviews are all bullshit, because they always change. When House of 1000 Corpses came out, all the reviews were awful. It was impossible to find a review better than "The worst movie ever made." And now I'll see more-modern magazines, and sometimes they'll re-review things, and I'll read this great review for it. It's the same thing with White Zombie! People talk about "Oh, White Zombie, these classic records. Why don't you do them now?" Everyone hated those records when they came out! The reviews were terrible.
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You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
