Jimmy Smits Quotes
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I have nothing to hide.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I take my work seriously.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.
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Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.
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I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.
