Ed Martin Quotes
Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.
Quotes to Explore
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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This guy obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bedsheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice?
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
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I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black – with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing – and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
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How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
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What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.
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Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.
