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.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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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.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
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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.
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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.
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
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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.
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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
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There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
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I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.
