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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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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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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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.
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Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
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Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.
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My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
