Robert Farrell Smith (Obert Skye) Quotes
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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No one is India.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.
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The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
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I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.
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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
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Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.
