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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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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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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I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.
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There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.
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The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ.
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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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.
