Riley Smith Quotes
Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.
Quotes to Explore
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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With 'If I Stay,' I want you to feel that the whole story is being told from a larger, spiritual point of view. So the beginning is very theatrical.
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
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In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
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I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
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It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.
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You want to bring it every day. But if you have a bad day in the theatre, a couple of hundred people see it. That sucked; we'll get back to it. You have a bad day on film, it's just on DVD for the rest of your life.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.
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However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
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Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.
