Ed Martin Quotes

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.

I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully.

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

You cannot teach somebody how to relate to the kids, they have to come with it.

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

I'm not a big fan of horror movies, especially the recent teen-slasher sort of ones.

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

You really can't bring about anything new with art

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

Nobody helps anybody.

What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

It's OK to be wrong. You learn from your wrongs. You don't learn from being right. If you're right, you already know it. If you're wrong, it's because you don't know about it, and you made a mistake.

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

Enjoy your popcorn and enjoy the show. It's just a movie, so have fun!

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

Women love to impress and be their best.

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

The most important thing to understand about your pension is it only really counts on the day you put money in and the day you take money out.

Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates.

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

Savings is no longer about the markets, they're about playing the product game.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.