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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The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.
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This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included.
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I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.
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I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.
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Divas need their furs!
