Cliff Martinez Quotes
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.
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My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
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Spaniards are fun-loving people, and they love to dance to Punjabi songs for some reason. They didn't understand the language but enjoyed the beats.
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It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.
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I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
