J. M. Roberts Quotes
This has certainly been a good working relationship. We'll see if we can't make something we're all proud of in the end.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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'There is a systemic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear … that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.'
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I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.
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There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.
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I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
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I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.
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This has certainly been a good working relationship. We'll see if we can't make something we're all proud of in the end.
