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.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

  

  Daniel Bernoulli
  • True
  • Earth
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Star
  • Difficult
  • Street

• Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Love
  • Feels
  • Comfortable

• I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • People
  • Game
  • Listening

• I really felt we had all the elements to seriously make a run. On the other hand, in years past we had far more depth and could have withstood more things. At the beginning of the year I felt we were flexible enough to pull this off, and throughout the Big East season there was no reason we shouldn't have been able to at least get back to the Elite Eight level and be a Final Four team.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Team
  • Reason
  • Run

• The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Survive
  • Demands
  • Succumb

• I basically walked around with a goiter for four years because I was so afraid of surgery.

  

  Jennifer Grey

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

  

  Martine Syms