"Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself."

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CJ Roberts

#Persons Quotes

“I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.”
“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”
“Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?”
“We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!”

Source : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.170, Chelsea Green Publishing
“If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.”
“There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.”
“I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capitalism taking over rural Ontario or whatever, has complete sway over aspects of life. Nevertheless, people still have these moments of weird desperation, weird longing, weird true love, or weird, powerful lust, and that was a major inspiration for me, too.”
“Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.”

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