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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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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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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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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I'm kind of an idea guy.
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Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.
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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.
