Ricky Martin (Enrique Martín Morales) Quotes
Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
