J. M. Roberts Quotes
If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
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One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
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The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
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The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.
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And so a greater share of the night, Laura shed tears into her soft white pillow. Some of them were for old Oscar Lutz.... Some of them were for the general sad fact that hours fly and flowers die. But most of them were shed because of her own sudden and definite realization that even though there come new days and new ways, – love stays.
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The key research I usually apply that allows me to understand the roles that I take on, starts with the script in front of me, and what it offers. I try to absorb as much of it as I can, in the time that I have to study it, and I like to change things up, if I have a choice in the matter... and I usually don't. I dream on it, write about and find out who the individual is, and try to bring him to life with as much human and truth as I can.
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If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.
