Benito Martinez Quotes
Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.
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Kids are funny.
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The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
