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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A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.
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It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.
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I need to have daily improvement in everything we do and I basically felt throughout the entire spring that we did do that.
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Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.
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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.
