Mary Martin Quotes
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be … timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I've been training quite hard.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
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The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.
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There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.
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I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
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Neverland is the way I would like real life to be … timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.
