Yeardley Smith Quotes
Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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Whenever it was spring break, someone would always have a guitar down at the beach, and they'd play a random song, and I'd sing. Eventually, hearing compliments from people saying I sounded pretty good stuck with me.
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
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For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.
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Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.
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I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films.
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Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
