Elliott Smith Quotes
I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
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I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
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Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.
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Peace to Ron G, Brucy B, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starsky.
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I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I love when I get compliments on my shirts all the time. I'm a t-shirt guy, and I think nine times out of 10, they have some kind of super hero character on them.
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Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
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I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
