Martha Reeves Quotes

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Martha Reeves

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• I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

  

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• A cat is never vulgar.

  

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• What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.

  

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• I love all things Christmas.

  

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• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

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• What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.

  

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• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

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• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

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  • Perfect
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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

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• When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.

  

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• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

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• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

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• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

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• Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

  

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• I don't think I've worked with anyone where I haven't seen some progress. Now sometimes you can't take someone where they want to go, not all the way, and sometimes you stop, and they do it or don't do it on their own thereafter.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Stop
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• My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

  

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• I bowled for two years in college, because I was drunk and needed shoes.

  

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  • College
  • Drunk
  • Bowled

• We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

  

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• I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

  

  Summer Sanders
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• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Up
  • School
  • Job