H. Allen Smith Quotes
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I respect the Premier League.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.
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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
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There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
