Kevin Martin Quotes
People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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Be happy in your own skin.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.
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Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato,Quando felice in su la ruota siede:Però c'ha i veri e i finti amici a lato,Che mostran tutti una medesma fede.Se poi si cangia in tristo il lieto stato,Volta la turba adulatrice il piede;E quel che di cor ama riman forte,Ed ama il suo signor dopo la morte.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.
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I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
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People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.
