Mel Smith Quotes
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
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The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.
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The old get older And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah We're takin' over Come on!
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
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Our message is the same age-old message of life. We have taught in the world for half a century: 'life is bliss, free from problems, it’s not necessary to suffer'.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.
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If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.
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I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
