Martine Syms Quotes
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.
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For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
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The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
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Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.
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To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
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It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.
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I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
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I haven't played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.
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I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
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Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
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What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.
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Stand by the side of law enforcement, the men and women who are often the only semblance of hope and justice in the crime-ridden inner cities.
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I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.
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It's very comforting to feel myself getting stronger.
