Martin Henderson Quotes
It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
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'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.
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That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
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It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
