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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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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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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Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
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I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.