A. Lee Martinez Quotes
It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
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'Swingers' was always set in another world.
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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
