Elliott Smith Quotes
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.
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I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.
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The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
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Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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Different scenes call for different acting styles. The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary.
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Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
