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Quotes About Roger

We all know how good Roger is on grass.
~ David Goffin
If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.
~ John McEnroe
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
~ Roger Penrose
Roger reached the conclusion that the hero of his childhood and youth was one of the most unscrupulous villains the West had excreted onto the continent of Africa.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Perhaps also Roger felt that were he to take up the cudgels for an argument he might be worsted in the combat, as in such combats success is won by practised skill rather than by truth.
~ Anthony Trollope
I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.
~ Steve James
You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
~ Roger Andrew Taylor
Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.
~ Roger Zelazny
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
~ John Sayles
Everyone knew how powerful Roger Ailes was. I certainly felt intimidated by that; the culture of 'Fox and Friends' was intimidating to me.
~ Gretchen Carlson
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
~ Fred Saberhagen
We have to go about our business. Certainly, we'd love to have Roger aboard. There's no doubt about it. We also understand his thought process, what he's going through to try to make this decision.
~ Tim Purpura
'The Judas Kiss' was really wonderful. I loved that it concentrated on just two events in Wilde's life, and Rupert Everett was top dollar.
~ Roger Allam
My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Hey, there!" yelled Shinny. "You, with the asteroid head! Gimme a short bucket of that juice and bring a bottle of Martian fizz along with it!" The bartender nodded, and Shinny turned back to Roger. "Martian fizz is nothing more than a little water with sugar in it," he explained.
~ Carey Rockwell
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
~ Barry McGuire
There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.
~ John Sayles
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.
~ Robert Wyatt
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
~ Tina Turner
A good man's prayers are golden recompense! rejoined old Roger Chillingworth, as he took his leave. Yea, they are the current gold coin of the New Jerusalem, with the King's own mint-mark on them!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
~ Val Guest
My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
~ Thomas Pynchon
You got this ship for free!?" "Damn all Puritans and their base obsession with how much it costs!" Roger bellowed, shaking a tiny drumstick at Daniel's brow as if it were the club of Hercules.
~ Neal Stephenson
'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'
~ Elena Roger