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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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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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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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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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 Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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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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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
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So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.
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What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.
