Sam Smith Quotes
I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.
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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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The stage is bigger than life. There you are projecting to an audience. In television, you're drawing the camera in to you. And with TV, there isn't that immediate feedback from an audience. You do hours and hours of taping and never get that response.
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He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
