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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We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.
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I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.
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Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.
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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
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There's a scene in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.
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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.
