Martha Reeves Quotes
There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I love recording music.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.
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It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
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There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
