Pedro Martinez Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.
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The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize
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I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.
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When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.
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There was always something missing in Montreal.
