Angie Martinez Quotes
The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
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Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
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'Count yourself lucky,' the potter went on, 'that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.'
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My goal is to be the best quarterback I can be for the Colts, and hope that it's good enough.
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The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.
