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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Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.
