J. M. Roberts Quotes
I just kept riding the bus and riding the bus. I found out later that the whole time he was paying my fares -- since you couldn't ride the bus for free, you know. And we finally got together and just clicked.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.
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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
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Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses - it's appalling.
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Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
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I just kept riding the bus and riding the bus. I found out later that the whole time he was paying my fares -- since you couldn't ride the bus for free, you know. And we finally got together and just clicked.
