Margo Martindale Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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Audrey Hepburn, for me, was the end-all, be-all style icon.
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Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
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Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
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There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
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When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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...when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.
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I'm gaga over Richard Jenkins.
