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

• My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Food

• They used to time our elementary fire drills so we could watch the launches. I thought that was normal. I thought every kid watched every NASA launch.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Time
  • Fire

• I'm literally online all day long, and if I don't get back to everyone, I'll stay up all night.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

  

  Claire Cook
  • World
  • Sisters
  • Polite

• The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Simple
  • Pain
  • Creative

• 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