Andrea Martin Quotes
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.
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Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
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You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
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Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.
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Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up along themselves. It happens when the followers submit too much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do whatever they want--which is often something undemocratic, tyrannical and brutal.
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If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.
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I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.
