Deborah Roberts Quotes
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
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I believed I could play in the NBA.
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I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.
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You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.
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No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
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Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
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When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.
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There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.
