Martin Fry Quotes
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.
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Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.
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When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
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The Clinton Administration has been downsizing our military for the last seven years, and the Kosovo crisis has exposed how our national security is now in real danger.
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It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.
