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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
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I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.
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We come in early to make sure the project is workable. We identify problems early so keep the project on track.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.
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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.
