Margo Martindale Quotes
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
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Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.
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O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.
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I honestly never turn on the television if I'm alone.
