A. Lee Martinez Quotes
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
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People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.
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That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.
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No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
