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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.
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Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
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There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
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I'm not a 3-D man; I'm a 2-D man.
