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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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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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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Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
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We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.
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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
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I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been.
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Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.
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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.
