Martin Henderson Quotes
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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The bigger the bet, the better I played.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There's no point believing in yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Once you've got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It's not quite the same thing.
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I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
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It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.
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'Little Fish' has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.
