Julia Roberts Quotes
I do think that I am fundamentally the same relatively simple person I've always been. I just have this flashy, wacky job [actress] that confuses people into thinking that I'm somehow ultrafascinating.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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I do think that I am fundamentally the same relatively simple person I've always been. I just have this flashy, wacky job [actress] that confuses people into thinking that I'm somehow ultrafascinating.
