Mark Roberts Quotes
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
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Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world. People respond to a certain down-to-earthness that I have, and that's purely as a result of coming from Birmingham.
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.
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I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I'll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video.
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The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.
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I've got a massive VHS collection in my apartment. Some people think that it's not a good thing, but I find comfort in it.
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I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.
