Jimmy Smits Quotes
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.
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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
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One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
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I have a personality type, but it's not like I'm like, 'Oh yeah, short and brunette. That's what I like. All the time.'
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I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.
