Martha Reeves Quotes
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.
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Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
