Martin Campbell Quotes
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
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I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.
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Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.
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Time marks us while we are marking time.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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My desire is to walk with God every day.
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I'm not a 3-D man; I'm a 2-D man.
