J. M. Roberts Quotes
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
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Obviously, it makes it a lot more interesting.
