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Angie Martinez Quotes

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1971

Topics

Go Fair Interview Still Like Hates

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

Love Live Singing Feeling I Can Out

I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

Life People Choices Inspire Young

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

Good Yourself People You Be True

I like working more than I like being at home. Facing that fact is incredibly difficult to handle, because what kind of person likes working more than being at home?

Home Person Kind More Difficult

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Life Yourself Mind World You Way

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

Good Bad Know Way Never Same

Sometimes I'm on a TV set, and I can't feel what I'm supposed to feel as that character because I've not worked my way up to that point. I think there's a bit more insecurity on a set - you've got to blag it, or you've got to do what you've been paid a lot of money to do in a very short space of time.

Character Time Money Space Think

Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.

Alone Empathy People Capitalism You

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.

Jonathan Franzen

Child New Questioning Should Adopt

As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to our viewers. We should serve as a model to them.

Good Influence Think Doing Artist

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

Chrystia Freeland

Government Opportunities Growing Jobs

I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

Hope Alone Baseball World Game Debt

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