Martine Syms Quotes
I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
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There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.
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The addition of more clinical services will help serve veterans. But clearly there has been a need for many, many years for a hospital and he'll continue to do everything he can to get one.
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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
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I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
