Chris Martin Quotes
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.
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I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
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But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
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I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
