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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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

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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?

  

  Gary Frank
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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.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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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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• Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and 'Down with Authority' her war-cry.

  

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• Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

  

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• He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

  

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• I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

  

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• After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

  

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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.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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