H. Allen Smith Quotes
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
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I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
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Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Put it back in the horse!
