Margo Martindale Quotes
I got my first professional job at Harvard, at the Loeb Drama Center, and I remember sitting on campus one day under a tree - I was doing 'Threepenny Opera.' I was reading a book, and the light caught me, and I thought, 'I want to be in the movies.'
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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In South Korea, there's a lot of folks who are already saying this deal doesn't go far enough. And I had one source say that President Park will, quote, "get lots of love from D.C. for this" but that the money itself for the fund - $8 million - isn't that much and that the deal itself doesn't ensure that future generations will learn from history so not to repeat it.
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The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
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If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.
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I got my first professional job at Harvard, at the Loeb Drama Center, and I remember sitting on campus one day under a tree - I was doing 'Threepenny Opera.' I was reading a book, and the light caught me, and I thought, 'I want to be in the movies.'
