J. M. Roberts Quotes
I knew she could be really good. If she stayed healthy and motivated she could be one of the best players here.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
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Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
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I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.
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The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.
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I knew she could be really good. If she stayed healthy and motivated she could be one of the best players here.
