Martin Mull Quotes
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.
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Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail.
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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
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Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
