J. M. Roberts Quotes
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I have nothing to hide.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
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I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
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I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
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The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
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I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
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For the Denver traveler, it's wonderful. Competition is wonderful.
