Deborah Roberts Quotes
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I'm very content.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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If people know they're being sold to, you can celebrate the sell.
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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
