Alex Smith Quotes
In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
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You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.
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I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
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You can't win them all but you can try.
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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
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I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
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We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.
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I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!
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Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
