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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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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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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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
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If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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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.
