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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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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Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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O, let America be America again - The land that never has been yet - And yet must be - the land where every man is free.
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Hope for a better future begins by making Peace with your past.
