Martin Johnson Quotes
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
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Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
