Jimmy Smits Quotes
I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.
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You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.
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For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
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If you outsmart your audience, you're going to lose them.
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The white paper is very much in line with what we and Air France have said over the last years. Unfortunately we don't have the same intelligence services.
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I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.
