William Martin Quotes
How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I've never been a partier.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
