Eugene J. Martin Quotes
It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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No, I try not to be a negative thinker.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
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Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.
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I never thought I would become a photographer.
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Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.
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Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.
