J. M. Roberts Quotes
They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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If I'm in pads during the week, I'm probably going to play. So, there's no doubt that I'll probably be out there. As long as I don't have any setbacks, I'll be fine.
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No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.
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They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.
