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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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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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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In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
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'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
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I can't contain how enthusiastic I am about working on books for kids.
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To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.
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We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Harper is serious about making this Parliament work, we will be open to working with him.
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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.
