J. M. Roberts Quotes
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I know what poverty is.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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Sarah Palin's a quitter.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.
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There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.
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We have to turn away people all the time if we don't have space.
