Eugene J. Martin Quotes
Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I'm very unorganized.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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Time to be the sun and send forth flesh to heal the bones of time.
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It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
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There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.
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In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!
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Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.
