Jimmy Smits Quotes
The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
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I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
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I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
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The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
