Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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The Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with achieving stable prices and maximum employment - the dual mandate.
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The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
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Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.
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Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
