J. M. Roberts Quotes

What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.

J. M. Roberts

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• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

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• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

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• When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

  

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• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  

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• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

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• Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

  

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• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

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• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

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• I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

  

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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

  

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• Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

  

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

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• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

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• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

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• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

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• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

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• Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

  

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• I married beneath me, all women do.

  

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• You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you're exceptional.

  

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• What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Parents
  • Food
  • Change