Catherine Martin Quotes
I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.
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The Bible says, “A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
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It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
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In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're good and I trust that wherever you are and whatever you do, you will do it right.'
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People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
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I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.
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I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different choices with me, I always end up wearing a tank top, jeans and sneakers.
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Diana Vreeland was "the Empress," the avatar of the age. An old name or old money were not enough to get you into Studio 54 - or Interview magazine, for that matter. You had to have a lot of something else, like looks or brains or wit or fabulous clothes.
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I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.
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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
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None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.
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There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.
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I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I have a special closet in my home just for my shoes.
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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
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I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
