Dean Smith Quotes
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	I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.   
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	You have to be yourself.   
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	My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.   
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	When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'   
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	Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.   
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	Any competent actor could have done what I did.   
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	I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'   
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	It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.   
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	I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.   
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	I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.   
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	Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.   
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	Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.   
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	It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.   
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	I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.   
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	I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.   
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	Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.   
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	They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.   
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	It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.   
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	I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.   
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	I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.   
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	Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?   
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	I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.   
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	I don't understand choreographers who say they don't care about the audience or that they would be happy to present their works non-publicly. I think dance is a form of communication and the goal is to dialogue with the audience. If an audience member tells me they cried or that the dance moved them to think about their own journey or a family member's, then the work is successful.   
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	I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					