J. M. Roberts Quotes
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
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I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.
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Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
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'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'
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Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.
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I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
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New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.
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You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features but I also strive to make music that is peaceful. I want to make music that aids world peace in the same way that the people who shaped my development did.
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I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.
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When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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He had a slender nose. He had very slim features.
