Stan Smith (Stanley Roger Smith) Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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No one can keep you down but yourself.
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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
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In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate or rule over on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development or in-dept analysis, of the faculties of the intelligence, the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental or subordinate things.
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What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
