Pedro Martinez Quotes
You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I looked around and couldn't believe no one has written a show about women and eating. It's the biggest issue women have.
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I have no cynicism at all.
Antony Sher -
My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.
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You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
