J. M. Roberts Quotes
They didn't have a guy who could guard me. When I could drive and dish off, we could get baskets.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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I grew up with Bond.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
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I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.
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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
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I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'
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They didn't have a guy who could guard me. When I could drive and dish off, we could get baskets.
