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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I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.
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When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
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I auditioned for 'Westworld' thinking it was gonna be a knock-off spoof. Thank God I didn't know Anthony Hopkins was starring in it.
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And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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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.
