Jimmy Smits Quotes
I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.
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Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
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Boyoboy oboyoboy oboyoboyoboyoboyoboyoboy...
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There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.
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I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.
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I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.
