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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You can't demand generational change on the one hand and expect 40 years of experience on the other.
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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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Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
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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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I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
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Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.
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Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
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Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do - creating.
