Ed Martin Quotes
This area will be a city someday. All of that land is either spoken for or is being entitled, so we were fortunate to get in early.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Actor's life is very long.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.
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In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.
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The scales of justice are in disarray...
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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.
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Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
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I kind of like to look like a hobo.
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Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.
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This area will be a city someday. All of that land is either spoken for or is being entitled, so we were fortunate to get in early.
