Martin Clunes Quotes
Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
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Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself. You are evil.
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Women can have a career, but the real career is to be a woman. It's beautiful to be a woman and give birth.
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Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
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Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.
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Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from.
