Martha MacIsaac Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'
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I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.
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I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.
