J. M. Roberts Quotes
As a team, we struggled shooting the ball. We just got enough (points) down the stretch.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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As a team, we struggled shooting the ball. We just got enough (points) down the stretch.
