Martin Evans Quotes
When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
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My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.
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When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
