Jimmy Smits Quotes
At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.
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I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.
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Like all power seekers, Pae was amazingly shortsighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind, it lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was, in fact, a primitive instrument.
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But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.
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I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.
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One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.
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Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
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At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
