J. M. Roberts Quotes
His father was a post player; he's a skill player. He can play multiple positions, and he can shoot the basketball.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I am just one human being.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
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The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.
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In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.
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My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
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I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
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His father was a post player; he's a skill player. He can play multiple positions, and he can shoot the basketball.
