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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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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I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
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High heels are pleasure with pain.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
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In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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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.
