Jake Roberts Quotes
I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the big show.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.
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The question of where Europe ends and Asia begins has troubled many people over the years, but here's a rule of thumb: if someone can pose as an expert on the country in question without knowledge of the relevant language, it's part of Asia.
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In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.
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I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the big show.
