Deborah Roberts Quotes
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
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One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.
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Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!
