J. M. Roberts Quotes
We have great support in town and the union boys are right behind us as well. We get on real well with them. They come to the games and celebrate with us.
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
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It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.
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We have great support in town and the union boys are right behind us as well. We get on real well with them. They come to the games and celebrate with us.
