J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I get bored easily.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
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I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.
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Maybe the Lord's word is decisive on that: The poor are always with us. You know, you'll never run out of people, you can help.
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There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.
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She took care of the family and that made him able to do his job.
