James Robertson Quotes

#1. On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

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#2. No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life,

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#3. Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

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#4. Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

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#5. If you think yourself into the past, that's where you'll end up - and faster than you expect.

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#6. There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

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#7. The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

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#8. There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

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#9. I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

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#10. It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last - tough people do.

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