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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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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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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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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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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I don't get offered many comedies.
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I have seen players and coaches come and go, but through it all, I have always known Cleveland is where I want to retire. But life doesn't always work the way you want it to, and at the end of the day, the saying, 'This is a business,' is unfortunately true.
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I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.
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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
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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.
