J. M. Roberts Quotes
I buy the CDs of my favorite artists like Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Format.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water barons argue, is to put the process in the hands of the market. If water is scarce, then raise the price - let the law of supply and demand take over!
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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I buy the CDs of my favorite artists like Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Format.
