Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
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Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
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I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not saying it was meant for me or anything - people will start twisting this - it is Rihanna's song! But I've always loved it.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
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People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
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Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.