Martha Grimes Quotes
I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.
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When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.
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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
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I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
