J. M. Roberts Quotes
Once they come back and see there's no way to catch up, that's a realization that strikes many of them as a surprise and a disappointment.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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I have a friend who swears by food combinations - have you heard of this nonsense? She's nuts. She's like, 'You know what? You should eat food combinations, and that way you can eat whatever you want. It's just the combinations of how you put the food together.' And then her examples are like, 'You wouldn't want to eat steak and potatoes together, but you could have, like, a lemon rind and raisin skins - not the whole raisin, take the skins and steam them.
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Dear Mum, I know you're always thereTo help and guide me with all your care,You nursed and fed me and made me strongTo face the world and all its wrong.
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I don't want to make general remarks. I don't want to make sweeping remarks about the media. In my country the media can play its own role. Freedom of press is there. It is for them to take their own views about the leaders.
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When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
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Once they come back and see there's no way to catch up, that's a realization that strikes many of them as a surprise and a disappointment.
