Martin Donovan Quotes
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
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Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
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I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.
