Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson) Quotes
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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We always trend set.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.
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One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.
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I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in the morning, and I write my blog, and then I go upstairs, and I work on music. And I do that every day. That's what I do. I don't check in once a week and think, "Oh, I've gotta come up with something now." I'm always writing. I was just in a coffee shop in Chelsea last night, just killing time, waiting for a friend, and I sat and wrote enough for three good songs. I love it. This is my life. It's all I do.
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It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
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Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
