J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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As a pitcher, you can't afford to get too ticked off.
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To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
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I'm a total goof. When I'm being really comfortable with my friends, I can be very goofy.
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The dates have been discussed with Ms. Ching's family in Canada to help in their arrangements to travel to Australia.
