Martha Beck Quotes

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

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• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

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• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

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• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

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• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

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• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

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• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

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• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

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• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

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• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

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• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

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• It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.

  

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• The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

  

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• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

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• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

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• When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

  

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• I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

  

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• Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

  

  Martha Beck
  • True
  • Emotional
  • Scars