Charles G. D. Roberts Quotes
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
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...faced with a choice between an agreement that is to the advantage of the peoples of Europe and one that bolsters their own power within the EU institutions at the expense of Europe’s social economies, the Brussels establishment, and the powerful politicians behind them, will choose the latter every time.
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'I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day,' said Mr. Irwine. 'No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things'.
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Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
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Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!
