Wednesday Martin (Wendy Martin) Quotes

I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.

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• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Drama
  • Books
  • Interests

• To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Success
  • Man

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Islam

• I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Football
  • Army
  • Living

• It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Game
  • Want
  • Change

• I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Up
  • College
  • Chemistry

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Young
  • Genre

• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Future
  • Perfect

• I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Hollywood

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • High

• So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Long
  • Meaning

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Snooze

• People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Always
  • They Say

• It doesn't matter what kind of body you have, it's the determination and the spirit that's going to get you there. I want to prove that.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Determination

• The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Life
  • Long
  • American

• I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Night

• You always hear about how women working together will catfight.

  

  Megan Hilty
  • Women
  • Together

• I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • Women
  • Campfire
  • Primate