Mary Martin Quotes
Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do - creating.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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Any normal candidate who mocked the disabled or made crude reference to a woman's menstrual cycle or dabbled in 9/11 conspiracy theories would be out of the race. Trump's fans remain. And wait for more.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!
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Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?
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I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.
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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
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When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.
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'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.
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All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
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But especially, you know, I love the music. This is my purpose. I don't do anything else but music.
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A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart – this is what is needed.
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They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.
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Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do - creating.
