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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On the set I never know what day of the week it is.
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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I buy the CDs of my favorite artists like Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Format.
