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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When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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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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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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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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'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'
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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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All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
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Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
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Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.
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When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
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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.
