Martha Reeves Quotes
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I will never retire.
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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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I'm good at keeping secrets.
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Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.
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One of the weird things about modern physics is that we do find there are apparently these other dimensions that we don't directly experience that explain some aspects of the overall geometry and reality of our universe.
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I used to set out and do a film and say, 'This is going to be the biggest film I've ever done.' But that's not the right approach. The approach should be the work.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
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Divas need their furs!
