Megan Smith Quotes
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
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Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.
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Say the opposite, say the opposite, say the same thing, say the same thing. (song/refrain on 'The Show').
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Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.
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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
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Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.
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I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.
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Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
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I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
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It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.
