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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Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.
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Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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He had a slender nose. He had very slim features.
