Jimmy Smits Quotes
Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
Nancy Gibbs
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
Adam Peaty
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I would love to be a role model.
Gabby Douglas
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
Dan Futterman
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
Natasha Lyonne
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
Frances Beinecke
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
M. J. Rose
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
Mallory Ortberg
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
Val Guest
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The emotions of the game do not change.
Jack Youngblood
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
Viggo Mortensen
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Fay Weldon
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I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.
Freema Agyeman
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The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
Jan C. Ting
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
Vijay
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If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.
Lindsay Fox
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My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
James Carville
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Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.
Jimmy Smits