Martin Clunes Quotes

The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

Martin Clunes

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• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Art

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Done

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

  

  Kate Upton
  • American
  • Horse
  • Nation

• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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  • Trying
  • Bad

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
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• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Boring

• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Actor
  • Author
  • Musical

• No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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  • Internet
  • Battle

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Trying
  • Mistakes
  • Worried

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

  

  Russell Hornsby
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Mask

• I saw Bobby Green and Lando Vannata, and everybody in the back was like, 'Oh, man, that's a sick fight!' And I'm like, 'Dude, look at his face, that cannot be good for his brain.' I'm just honest.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
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  • Brain
  • Sick

• This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.

  

  James Lankford
  • Country
  • Why
  • Bad

• I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Chance
  • Realize
  • Revelation

• The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

  

  Martin Clunes
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