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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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
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You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.
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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.
