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.
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We shred every day.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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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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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.
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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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'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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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.
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No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
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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.
