J. M. Roberts Quotes
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
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It was a tough run and we tried really hard. The track changed a little bit from the morning to the afternoon which was a little bit to our favour. We tried something in the beginning of the top-six qualifying and it didn't work, and we had to stop right away. We used the tyres up and the track was better. At the end of the day, I don't think we would have been able to catch Ryan. He did a good job. Now we look forward to the race tomorrow and hopefully will do well.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.
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I think we were fortunate to get the win tonight.
