Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes
There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I just roll with the punches.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
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Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the right reasons, um, and with the best intentions. Anything at all is completely possible and I think that's what I like about drawing. I think it's just really fun. You can do anything you want. And that's part of, like, what's really enjoyable about it... is kind of losing yourself in it.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.
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What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
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There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.
