Martine Syms Quotes
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.
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You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.
