Mary Martin Quotes
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
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Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
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I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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Music a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.
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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
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Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
