Pedro Martinez Quotes
They're sending me to the Dominican Republic. Then I'll go with T. O. to the Bahamas and do his training program to get myself in shape. When I get back, I'll pitch if we're still in the race. After tomorrow's start, I'm on vacation.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
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I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
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The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.
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We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.
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If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.
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They're sending me to the Dominican Republic. Then I'll go with T. O. to the Bahamas and do his training program to get myself in shape. When I get back, I'll pitch if we're still in the race. After tomorrow's start, I'm on vacation.
