Deborah Roberts Quotes
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
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Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.
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Never forget those who believed in you. They are why you are where you are.
