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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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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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
