Charles Martin Smith Quotes
I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
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A hard man is good to find.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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I do not seek. I find.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
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You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Choosing my own songs wasn't available to me. Any time I turned in a song, it was dissected more than others'. ... There's nobody else like me in this space, so anytime they tried to compare me to somebody, they couldn't quite put their finger on it.
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I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
