Martine Syms Quotes
A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
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I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
