Martha Reeves Quotes
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.
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Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
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What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.
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The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
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I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.
