Martin Compston famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.
-- Martin Compston

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A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
-- Martin Compston

#Winning #Awards #People
The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.
-- Martin Compston

#School #Lasts #Last Time

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...

Martin Compston famous quotes

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