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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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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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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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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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 haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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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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From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.
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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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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
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Supernatural characters allow actors to experiment. The role isn't restricted to standing in the kitchen and crying. I love doing that, too. But I have done enough of that.
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Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
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If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning the Copernican principle…. Whatever our theoretical predilections, they will in the end have to give way to the observational evidence.
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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.
