Charles G. D. Roberts Quotes
O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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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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I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
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By some mysterious reason, there is no difficulty for a man in illtreating a woman, and this is something amazing. Everybody loves his mother, sisters and relatives etc, but still, with all this there is this callous attitude and ill-treatment of women. So women's movements are necessary. One thing which is forgotten in India is the transformation of the attitude of men. It is in this field that active work has to be done. We all preach to women that they should assert themselves. But on the other hand we don't tell sufficient early, strongly, to the male that they should behave well, their attitude should change. I have no doubt that even the women's reservation [bill] will be finally adopted.
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I've got no problem whatsover with collar bars coming back in. I need to look a tiny bit older before I can dress like that the entire time - otherwise I'm going to look like I'm in 'Bugsy Malone.'
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O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
