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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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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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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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 don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
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'Nice shirt, Fletcher,' said Sergeant Murt Hourihan. ''You looking for a job in a surf store?'
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
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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.
