Judith Martin Quotes

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

Judith Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1938

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Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

Joe Morton

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume

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I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise, it just becomes long and rambling, indulgent. So I think you need both, frankly.

Melissa McCarthy

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Somebody said, 'Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. They're looking for a funny lady.' Within three hours, I had the job. That was January 1955. I had such fun with that show.

Ann B. Davis

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I think you judge your career by the scripts that are being sent your way.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Rob Lowe

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I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Jason Patric

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We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Jose Clemente Orozco

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If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

Denzel Washington

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I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

Chris Wood

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The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.

Brendan I. Koerner

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I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

Allegra Huston

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