"Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray."

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Source : "Community Mourns the Death of Martin de Maat" by Lisa Lewis, March 2, 2001.

Martin de Maat

#Trying Quotes #Scene Quotes #Deeper Quotes

“War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.”
“I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.”
“There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.”
“I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.”
“The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.”
“I believe the human spirit is indomitable...”
“What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.”
“When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.”

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