Charles Hugh Smith Quotes
Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I always root for the defense.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
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Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?
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Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.
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Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
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Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.
