J. R. Martinez Quotes
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
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You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.
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I love working with sponsors.
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
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But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen do is drop in letters and get laid. This is the job for me, oh yes yes yes.
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There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.
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I'm an emotional guy.