Curtis Martin Quotes
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.
Quotes to Explore
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
-
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
-
I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
-
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
-
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
-
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
-
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
-
The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
-
What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
-
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
-
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
-
If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
-
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
-
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
-
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
-
I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
-
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
-
Oprah Winfrey is such an inspiring person.
-
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.
