Martin Clunes Quotes
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister. I'm going to be cool for you, okay. I like, I need to, I like being by myself right now. I think it's good for me.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as it is about transport.
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The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It's a vast majority of Uber's revenues, and so that flexibility and the rapid growth and the fighting the battles, it's all Travis. You can't take any credit away from him.
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I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art.
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We keep horses. I have to keep working.
