Martin Margiela Quotes
While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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Puma is a brand deeply rooted in sporting lifestyle.
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I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
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The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
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The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
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If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
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While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.
