Ed Martin Quotes

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

America, you must be born again!

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

Rioting is not revolutionary.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

Violence often brings about momentary results.

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald Trump for president.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward.

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.

I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in a manner that the people can understand. For me, that isn't populism.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.

On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.

Find something in your life worth fighting for