William Jay Smith Quotes
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
Quotes to Explore
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
