Brian J. Smith Quotes
I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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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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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by 'Star Wars' fans around the world.
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Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
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My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.
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One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
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I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
