Olivier Martinez Quotes
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
