Jimmy Smits Quotes

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

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• I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Growth

• All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Storytelling

• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Music
  • Like
  • Artists

• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Home
  • Together
  • Know

• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • America
  • Feeling

• Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Air

• I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Proud
  • Taken
  • Fact

• I'm really not worried about what fans think.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Really

• If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Matter
  • Follow

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Myself
  • Said
  • Sarcastic

• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Window

• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Power
  • Exercise

• I love traveling. I've been doing it since I was 16.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Doing
  • I Love

• To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • May
  • Way
  • Say

• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Speak
  • Lord

• My parents didn't have any money.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Any

• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Step
  • Mathematics
  • Elegance

• Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Champion
  • Rocks
  • Pops

• Meaningful learning in a community requires both participation and reification to be present and in interplay. Sharing artifacts without engaging in discussions and activities around them impairs the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts makes learning depend on individual interpretation and memory and can limit its depth, extent, and impact. Both participation and reification are necessary. Sometimes one process may dominate the other, or the two processes may not be well integrated. The challenge of this polarity is for communities to successfully cycle between the two.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Challenge

• Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Drunk
  • Blind
  • Alcohol

• When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

  

  Jimmy Smits