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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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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I have always been interested in that relationship between what happens in our head and what happens in the world.
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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
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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.
