J. M. Roberts Quotes
Like the rich man, they can have so many things right for so long and sometimes at the end they can lose it all because of one wrong decision.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and are looking for clarity concerning the life that they are engulfed in.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
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Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
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Like the rich man, they can have so many things right for so long and sometimes at the end they can lose it all because of one wrong decision.
