Margo Martindale Quotes
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I still love my little home on YouTube, really.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
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Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
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Odd, how different different men’s fears could be.
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Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.
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I haven't gotten jobs because I'm famous or I have a big Twitter feed - it's primarily directors. People employ me because I'm right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
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A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
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I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.
