Martin Compston Quotes

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

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• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
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• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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• Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
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• Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
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  • Long

• Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.

  

  Natasha Little
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  • Stop
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

  

  Maggie Grace
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• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
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  • Moments

• I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

  

  Gary Numan
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• I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

  

  Wale
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• I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

  

  Gary Gygax
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• I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • School
  • Acting
  • Doing

• I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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  • November

• When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.

  

  Arthur Chu
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  • Fake

• My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

  

  Leo Varadkar
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  • Dad

• Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Women
  • Democracy

• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Hand

• The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

  

  Martin Compston
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