J. R. Martinez Quotes
I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
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I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.
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I argued that the human race should have known it was in for trouble, at least we in the United States should have, given how insane our way of life had become. Minor quit blowing into his harmonica long enough to say that John D. Rockefeller and the Bush family had made a deal with the Devil going back all the way to the 1900s.
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
