Gelson Martins Quotes
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
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Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
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By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.
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Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back.
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I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
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I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
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I think the best thing is to change environment.
