Gelson Martins Quotes
I'm a fast player and I thought that I would fit in because they defend well and break.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have.
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In quiet moments, I love to read.
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My parents weren't actors or studio executives.
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I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly... and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!
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I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.
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When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
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People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.
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When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Get some! expresses in two simple words the excitement, fear, feelings of power and the erotic-tinged thrill that come from confronting the extreme physical and emotional challenges posed by death, which is, of course, what war is all about.
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I'm a fast player and I thought that I would fit in because they defend well and break.
