J. M. Roberts Quotes
It's more about what was going on in town at that time, the places and the bands. Our band was in the center of all that. That was a special time.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I'm very open-minded.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
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Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
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I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
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It's more about what was going on in town at that time, the places and the bands. Our band was in the center of all that. That was a special time.
