Martine Syms Quotes
I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.
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The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight, Wild with all longing, now soaring, now staying, Mingling like day and dawn, swinging and swaying, Hung like a cloud in the light: I am immortal! I feel it! I feel it! Love bears me up, love is might!
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The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
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I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.
