J. M. Roberts Quotes
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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They'd just clean it up. We could never cite them.
