J. M. Roberts Quotes
What I write deals with relationships, with making families. It just follows that I would often write about family and what it means.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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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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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
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What I write deals with relationships, with making families. It just follows that I would often write about family and what it means.
