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 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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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 don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
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It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
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We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
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Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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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.
