Catherine Martin Quotes
I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
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Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.
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I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.
