Jimmy Smits Quotes
I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.
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Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.
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If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
