J. R. Smith Quotes
I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
