Larry Smith Quotes
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
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The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.
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I don't snack a lot, because I didn't grow up snacking.
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I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed
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Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.
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One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
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A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.
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What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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Taking a lifetime to grow up.
