J. M. Roberts Quotes
I have no good theories about why Randal survived. I find it no less than a miracle given what I've learned about the environment he was in for over 40 hours.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
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Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.
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Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applicable, tell them you're struggling and explain why. If you lost your job or took a pay cut, be ready to prove it.
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I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
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How you handle the obstacles has a big impact on how you do. If you give up, then you obviously don't get there, but if you're persistent, and you keep thinking of new ways to approach the business, you're more likely to reach your goal.
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Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.
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I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald - I loved Ella Fitzgerald. There are so many of them. Nina Simone was one of my favourites - Johnny Mathis.
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A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
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Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.
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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
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The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
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I have no good theories about why Randal survived. I find it no less than a miracle given what I've learned about the environment he was in for over 40 hours.
