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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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.
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Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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Take clean energy. Some country is going to be the clean- energy superpower of the 21st century. Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.
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The kind of energy I attract is very calm.
