Zachary Cole Smith Quotes
I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I love working with women.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.
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Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
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I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do.
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I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
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One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
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I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.
