Jimmy Smits Quotes
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some guy in a dashiki said, 'Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it's you.'
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The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.
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It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
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I'm happy David Caruso is out there working.
