Jimmy Smits Quotes

Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • You
  • Anger
  • Guilt

• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Important
  • Me
  • Influence

• Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Years
  • New
  • Generation

• I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Just
  • Vampire
  • Others

• Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Voice

• It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Better

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Compassion
  • Animals
  • Pet

• A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Failure

• I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

  

  Oliver North
  • Responsibility
  • Accept
  • Do

• It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Career
  • Kind

• Tea is a huge part of my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Tea

• 'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Why

• Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Why
  • She
  • Power

• People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Today

• Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Judge

• Unica bellipraemia civilis, victis donare salutem,perdidimus.

  

  Lucan

• I wanted to focus on creating a solid foundation, creating my blueprint, and understanding who I was. You can get distracted easily, and people take you off course with just a compliment. I wanted the focus to be on Karen Civil the businessperson, not what I wore, not what I looked like.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Focus
  • Understanding

• Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Life
  • Different
  • Together

• I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Selfish

• Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Party

• When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Connection

• Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.

  

  Jimmy Smits