Martha Kelly Quotes
I feel like I should be a really happy, bubbly person to correspond with my good fortune, but I'm more of a this-could-dry-up-any-minute person who tries to enjoy it while it lasts. And if it does dry up, I'll still have the people I love, and I'll just figure out how to pay rent.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
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More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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I feel like I should be a really happy, bubbly person to correspond with my good fortune, but I'm more of a this-could-dry-up-any-minute person who tries to enjoy it while it lasts. And if it does dry up, I'll still have the people I love, and I'll just figure out how to pay rent.
