Martin Short Quotes
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There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.
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Since I was a kid, 'blues' has always been my favorite style of music. Chuck Berry was one of my favorite guitar players.
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People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
