Bayley (Pamela Rose Martinez) Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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You ask a faith, - they are content with faith; You ask to have, - but they reply 'IT hath.' There is no end, there need be no path.
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Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.
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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.
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Thinking about how far I've come, it's so crazy to me.
