J. R. Martinez Quotes
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
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Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.
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When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?
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I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
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When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.
