Deborah Roberts Quotes
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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I don't really get recognised very much.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
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He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
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I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.
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I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
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I don't get along much with myself.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.
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Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.
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I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
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At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.
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'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.
