J. M. Roberts Quotes
I'm surprised somebody hasn't broken loose. That's the way both days have been. You get started, and then fall off and have to regroup. ... It's a really good golf course that you have to think your way around.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I have always loathed working out.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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Celebrity is very weird.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I'm surprised somebody hasn't broken loose. That's the way both days have been. You get started, and then fall off and have to regroup. ... It's a really good golf course that you have to think your way around.
