Martin Short Quotes
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Only when my 'Punktown'-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.
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'The Rocky Horror Show' was actually my first musical love.
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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.
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Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
