J. M. Roberts Quotes
That's not so unusual in North Florida and West Florida. It didn't used to be unusual. It was completely unremarkable for the longest time.
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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Love is based on imagination.
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If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
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What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that.
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No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured.
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You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.
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I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.
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When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.
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Me and my dad, we'd go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we'd go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.
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Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
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When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
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I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.
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I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.
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it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.
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That's not so unusual in North Florida and West Florida. It didn't used to be unusual. It was completely unremarkable for the longest time.
