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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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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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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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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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'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.
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Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.
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I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.
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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.
