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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A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
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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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Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.
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The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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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.
