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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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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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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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
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I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.
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I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
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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.
