Martine Syms Quotes

I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.

Martine Syms

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• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Like

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Think
  • Crush
  • Shirley Manson

• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Special

• My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Small

• Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Old
  • Talk

• I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Novelist

• If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Books
  • Thing
  • Bookstore

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • God
  • Progress

• I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Trust

• I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

  

  Geoffrey Howe
  • People
  • Political
  • Creatures

• I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Worry

• It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Know
  • Clothes

• This is our comfort, God is in heaven, and He doth what pleaseth Him; His, and only His counsel shall stand, whatsoever the designs of men, and the fury of the people be.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Strong
  • Equality

• I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.

  

  Martine Syms