J. R. Martinez Quotes
My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing
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My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.
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As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
