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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Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!
