Sam Smith Quotes
When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.
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I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better.
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This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.
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I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.
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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
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When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
