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 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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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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Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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'Don’t be sentimental,' he chided. 'Memories aren’t enough.'It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.
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I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.
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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.
