J. M. Roberts Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
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I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I'm disappointed we lost but I'm more disappointed with the way we played.
