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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
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As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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The system of scholastic disputations encouraged in the Universities of the middle ages had unfortunately trained men to habits of indefinite argumentation, and they often preferred absurd and extravagant propositions, because greater skill was required to maintain them; the end and object of such intellectual combats being victory and not truth.
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I'm not a 3-D man; I'm a 2-D man.
