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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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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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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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
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I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.
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You are my Peter Pan.
