Kerr Smith Quotes
It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I've never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.
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After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.
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Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.
