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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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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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.
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Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.
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Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.
