Julia Roberts Quotes
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
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What children and the landing of a plane most have in common is that they are best made by a line drive of pilot lights guided through a single tambourine across the day we met in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.
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Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
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The kind of energy I attract is very calm.
