Mary Martin Quotes
Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A good leader must be fair.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.
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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
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If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.
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Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it
