Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
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Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
