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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Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
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You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.
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One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!
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Now my daughter's wedding is finished, I shall improve the economy in Taiwan.
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Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
