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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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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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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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.
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American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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If you sell a physical product, you have a lot of Q4 upside and unpredictability, but now you have to manage your cash to get to Q4 so that you can invest in building inventory to over-perform.
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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.
