Torrey Smith (James Torrey Smith) Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
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I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
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Anything worth doing hurts a little.
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Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.
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Education is the most important thing you can have.
