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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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 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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Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
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On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.
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I'm not a 3-D man; I'm a 2-D man.
