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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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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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.
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I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.
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I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.
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In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
