J. M. Roberts Quotes
I never wanted to do on air. Because the fact that you're on air, people take shots at you for no reason, and that made me uncomfortable. So I retreated to the safety and anonymity of behind the camera.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
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Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.
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Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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I never wanted to do on air. Because the fact that you're on air, people take shots at you for no reason, and that made me uncomfortable. So I retreated to the safety and anonymity of behind the camera.
