I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.
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Related From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. DAVE GROHL This entire generation seems to have become pussies, you know? Nobody seems to enjoy themselves much... LEMMY KILMISTER It was alchemy. You know, people just really liked each other. We spent all our time off-camera toge... SARAH JESSICA PARKER The thing about Beatles music is that everybody knows it. If you play Beatles music, the audience is... CURTIS REMINGTON I have this theory. If you think about almost any given moment in life, there is a Beatles song that... PENELOPE WARD First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they ... DAVID LEVITHAN Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head. PAUL MCCARTNEY She's leaving home after living alone for so many years. THE BEATLES Please don't wake me, no don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping THE BEATLES Day In the Life THE BEATLES But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun THE BEATLES Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. THE BEATLES Alice's Restaurant Massacre. THE BEATLES Til I Can Make It on My Own. THE BEATLES the minute I didn't feel it, I stopped. THE BEATLES Who knows how long I've loved you, you know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you ... THE BEATLES For I don't care too much for money, / For money can't buy me love. THE BEATLES All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belon... THE BEATLES Fads don't last, but it should be clear by now that the Beatles are no ordinary fad. THE BEATLES as many lost tracks as I could dig up. I found them everywhere: in my dresser, in my suitcases, my k... THE BEATLES Yesterday our troubles seemed so far away, I believe in yesterday. THE BEATLES [In A Twist of Lennon, Cynthia was reluctant to speak ill of anyone, even Yoko, whom she did not bla... THE BEATLES She Loves You. THE BEATLES Favorite Things. THE BEATLES I saw her standing there. THE BEATLES Nowadays people just stand there watching. It's definitely quieter, almost respectful. And as you pl... THE BEATLES Imagine. THE BEATLES Obviously there is some disappointment from some of the crew about leaving Kings Bay, THE BEATLES colorful, uplifting, lightning quick, music-filled evening of theatre dedicated to revolutionary Ame... THE BEATLES Everyone worked very hard on this. I'm very comfortable with everything. THE BEATLES Now we are both in this, both losing our mothers, THE BEATLES John was very human and sometimes in the middle of the night he would say, 'Are you awake ?' and I w... THE BEATLES No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it. THE BEATLES I remember thinking back to The Beatles years. I tend to remember them as glorious and golden, but t... THE BEATLES I mean, this is like, real. THE BEATLES I was in Europe a little while ago, and USA TODAY ran this item about how I was washing bike shorts ... THE BEATLES The production group told me he tried to leave the hospital twice because he'd never missed a show b... THE BEATLES I think it was. THE BEATLES [And Wilson won, by many estimates. His masterpiece concept album] Pet Sounds ... Sgt. Pepper's Lone... THE BEATLES True Love Ways. THE BEATLES Not to mince words, Mr Epstein, we don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitarists are on the way ... THE BEATLES The love you take is equal to the love you make. THE BEATLES Life goes on, brah! THE BEATLES But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you.
And these memories lose their... THE BEATLES I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend If it makes you feel alright THE BEATLES Life goes on within you and without you THE BEATLES Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. THE BEATLES Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. I have always thought th... THE BEATLES And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make. THE BEATLES To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain. THE BEATLES fitting and more permanent form of tribute. THE BEATLES Beauty's Release THE BEATLES The Beatles in 1963 weren't the same Beatles as they were in 1966. THE BEATLES I had spent much of my previous years completely enveloped in Coltrane and Bartok and really heavy, ... THE BEATLES Girl. THE BEATLES with such wit, perception, insight, charm, cleverness and charisma THE BEATLES Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard, THE BEATLES I ride motorbikes, ... Your father inspired me... my wife's letting me buy an ST1100 tomorrow. THE BEATLES Yesterday. THE BEATLES The film shows the director's consistent strength, (has an) uncompromising story and superb acting, THE BEATLES The Ed Sullivan Show. THE BEATLES The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops--that'll be the ti... THE BEATLES I'm happy with my lifestyle, ... I don't have time to reflect on [it]. THE BEATLES Tainted Love. THE BEATLES Don't you think you'll be getting in the way? THE BEATLES [The more conservative Daily Telegraph said,] Rooney does it again for England, ... Inspired, untouc... THE BEATLES For well you know that it's a fool, Who plays it cool, By making his world, A little colder THE BEATLES i know i'll often stop and think about them // in my life i love you more THE BEATLES I believe in yesterday THE BEATLES But tomorrow my rain, so I'll follow the sun THE BEATLES I get by with a little help from my friends THE BEATLES And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make... THE BEATLES And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make THE BEATLES Let it be. THE BEATLES That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser th... GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t... GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t... GEORGE ORWELL It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that ... HUGH HOWEY Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their... JIM MORRISON Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encourageme... MARTHA STEWART Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t... GEORGE ORWELL Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is ... GEORGE HARRISON The Beatles aren’t exactly obscure.” “No, they aren’t,” Conley answers. “Howe... CLAUDIA GRAY I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it. ZIGGY MARLEY I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ... JOE HILL Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need. JOHN LENNON The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles... EVAN RACHEL WOOD it's all in the mind GEORGE HARRISON Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to br... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the... MICHAEL RAPAPORT It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that... ALICE COOPER Njeriu jeton jo vetëm jetën e vet personale, por, me vetëdije apo pa vetëdije edhe atë të epok... THOMAS MANN We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And... JOHN LENNON When “Here Comes the Sun” started, what happened? No, the sun didn’t come out, but Mom opened ... MARIA SEMPLE When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ... RACHEL COHN No se necesita una sesión muy larga para comprender que mi vida es un intento incesante de probarle... DAVID FOENKINOS
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Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c... GEORGE MARTIN And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young pe... GEORGE MARTIN He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant. GEORGE MARTIN She?s a solid low-post player who can shoot the ball well. When she?s in the game she?s who I?m tryi... GEORGE MARTIN When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do. GEORGE MARTIN In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course... GEORGE MARTIN I mean there were tambourines, and a gong and that kind of thing. And all sorts of weird things, whi... GEORGE MARTIN But when Brian committed them to the picture and he said that they would provide new songs, they sai... GEORGE MARTIN I think she?s going to be an All-Conference player down the road. She?s such a tough match-up. 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MARTIN The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fear cuts deeper than swords. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?” “If you want to conquer the world, you... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The be... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid e... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh yo... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when the... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Those are brave men... lets go kill them GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You were made to be kissed, often and well. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?" "In my own bed, with a belly full of wine a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And who are you, the proud Lord said that I must bow so low? Only a cat of a different co... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout h... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to weep , she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I wan... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died . GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who fears losing has already lost. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow.... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN El que corre por la vida, corre hacia la muerte. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A Lannister always pays his debts. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!�... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not te... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and moun... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn o... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was all too much. For a moment Eddard Stark wanted nothing so much as to return to Winterfell, to... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What do we say to the Lord of Death?' 'Not today. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the wi... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Valar Morghulis. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. A... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arm... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Laughter is poison to fear. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nothing burns like the cold. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I look back I am lost. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Winter is coming. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things I do for love. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister." "Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "D... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every flight begins with a fall. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulde... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No Queen has clean hands. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream.... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs? GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves? GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shav... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do . GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapp... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.” His chains chinked softly. “I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN