William Jay Smith Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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I like power and I like to use it.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'
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Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
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Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.
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It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
