J. M. Roberts Quotes
He's taken a vocal leadership role, but more than actually saying anything, it's just his own work ethic. He's leading in running drills and stuff as simple as getting the place cleaned up when it's time to go home.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
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Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.
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Today the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people one must know them. Lincoln did. The Republican Party leadership does not. The greatest praise I can give Lincoln on this his anniversary is to say he would be ashamed of his party's leadership today.
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When I perform my role well, I feel proud.
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He's taken a vocal leadership role, but more than actually saying anything, it's just his own work ethic. He's leading in running drills and stuff as simple as getting the place cleaned up when it's time to go home.
