Dean Smith Quotes
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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At its best, life is completely unpredictable.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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I believe the climate is changing.
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I'm a product of what I believe in.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
