Olivier Martinez Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
