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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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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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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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.
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I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.
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But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
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We have to turn away people all the time if we don't have space.
