Mark Roberts Quotes
It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
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I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
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It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.
