Martin Cruz Smith Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
-
We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
-
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
-
The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
-
Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
-
I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
-
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
-
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
-
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
-
I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
-
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
-
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
-
I'm not a god - I do bad things.
-
Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
-
Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
-
If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
-
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
-
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
-
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
-
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
-
People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
-
It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.
-
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
-
I hate to be categorized.
