Martha Beck Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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I am mentally strong.
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In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.
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I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
