J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.
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You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
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Four times I looked for psychiatric help, and each time I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that the psychiatrist was crazier than I was.
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And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.
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The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.
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Put Israel back into international isolation ... and cause friction with the United States -- our great friend -- and hostility with Europe.
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What’s your problem? Why can’t you just be happy for people instead of seeing the world through the haze of your own misery?
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It's so fun to be in love... or so I've heard, The meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word...
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That is my responsibility. Obviously, I think we want to be more productive than what we were in the playoffs. That will be one of the things we look hard at. Offensively, how can we do a better job?
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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To me, district was harder than the playoffs. We faced tougher teams in our district.
