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 didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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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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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
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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.
