J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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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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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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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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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
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I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.
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I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.
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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
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It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.
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It felt like family from the first time we talked.
