Marta Kristen Quotes
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
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I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
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All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil….
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I guess I'm a born ham.
