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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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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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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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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We, as a country, cannot allow ourselves to become numb to this. We, as a media, cannot shrug it off as old news, because the real danger here is that, when Donald Trump lies to his supporters about the others who are trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him.
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I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
