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 live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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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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People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.
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I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
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My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.
