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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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 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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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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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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I am happy in Paris.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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As Attorney General of Alabama, I have never hesitated to stand up to the EPA before when it was wrong.
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
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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.
