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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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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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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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
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I can give anyone a hard time.
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I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'
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I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
