Jimmy Smits Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune' She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal.
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When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.
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What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.
