Alvin Martin Quotes
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon.
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I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.
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Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan -
That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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If Arsenal don't finish third, they might not finish in third place.
