Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson) Quotes
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
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We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
