Jesse L. Martin Quotes
As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.
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As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.
