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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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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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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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!
