Mark Roberts Quotes
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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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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.
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Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.
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The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.
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I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.
