J. M. Roberts Quotes
I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.
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I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.
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I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.
