Martin Yan Quotes
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
