Martine Syms Quotes
I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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As a young girl, I did not think that 'Time Lord' would ever be on my CV.
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Only fool! Only poet!Merely speaking colorfully,From fools' masks shouting colorfully,Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,On misleading rainbows,Between false heavensRambling, lurking -Only fool! Only poet!
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I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.
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I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.
