Martine Syms Quotes
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
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When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.
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I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.
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I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.
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One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.
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A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
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What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they wanted to name airports after him so they can say, 'I'm coming into Reagan!'
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I guess I can be a little mischievous!
