J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
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When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.
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I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
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We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
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Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm
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Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.
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Everything in moderation, like calories.
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These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
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The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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When I ran for secretary of agriculture in Iowa in 1996, people... were sure that Iowans would not consider electing a woman to that position.
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It was incredible to have such a legend on the bench with us.
