Martin Clunes Quotes
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.
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In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.
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I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.
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What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.
