Martin Compston Quotes
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33)
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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You don't miss what you never had.
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I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
