J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
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If there is no God, there is no hope.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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Hope for a better future begins by making Peace with your past.
