J. M. Roberts Quotes

But that noose is tightening as well, as is the noose in regards to Saddam Hussein.

J. M. Roberts

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• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  

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• I eat everything. I still like to go to Peter Luger once in a while.

  

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• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  

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• I'm just a low-key guy.

  

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• When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

  

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• A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

  

  James Harrington
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• I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

  

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• I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
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• One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

  

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• Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

  

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• Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

  

  Pete Hegseth

• The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.

  

  John Muir
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• I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

  

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• Last year we saw rookies play extremely well at quarterback, and they beat us; Pittsburgh beat us soundly.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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• I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

  

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• My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

  

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• The best writing is certainly when you are in love

  

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• We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

  

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• The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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• Saddam Hussein has brought this crisis on himself.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Crisis
  • Saddam Hussein

• But that noose is tightening as well, as is the noose in regards to Saddam Hussein.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Regards
  • Saddam Hussein
  • Noose