Martin Lawrence Quotes
Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
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So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.
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I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.
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I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.
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Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.
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When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.
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Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.
