Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson) Quotes

Good fiction creates its own reality.

Nora Roberts

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Hate
  • Daily
  • Sick

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• Bring out the eyes.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Eyes
  • Bring
  • Out

• It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Past

• I don't interest myself that much.

  

  Trisha Yearwood

• That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Business
  • Job
  • Guy

• Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Society

• For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Vacation

• I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.

  

  Chris Messina

• To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.

  

  Jeff Fisher

• I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Game

• The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

  

  Andre Benjamin
  • World

• When the opportunity came along to do the reality show, it was just a very exciting time. We really never thought about how it would pan out for the entire family but just knew that it was going to be a great journey.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Story
  • Memory
  • Fiction

• Reality isn‘t round, it‘s flat. There are edges where you can fall off and this October when I moved to Maine, I fell off one.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Reality
  • October
  • Edges

• Good fiction creates its own reality.

  

  Nora Roberts
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Creates