Jesse L. Martin Quotes

My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.

Jesse L. Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 18, 1969

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I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.

Jill Scott

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In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

John Bradshaw

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I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.

Jennifer Sky

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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Matthew McConaughey

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I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

Simon McBurney

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Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.

Robin Wright

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I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

Jonas Mekas

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I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.

Debra Granik

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When I see old friends, I'm very excited.

Chino Moreno

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My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Woody Herman

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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

William James

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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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