Ed Martin Quotes
Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I started out doing musicals.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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It is, like the Mona Lisa, one of those masterpieces with which you will be outstandingly familiar long before you ever get to see it...it does not disappoint. It does not disappoint the first time you see it, nor the third time, nor even the 30th time...
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And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.
