Antonio Garcia Martinez Quotes
Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
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I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, 'I have all these followers... how can we work together?'
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Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
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I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
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The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.
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I've got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.
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The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)
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What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.
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Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.
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We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is.
