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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She had to be a very strong woman to support her husband through all those ups and downs.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that – I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.
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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.
