Charles Martin Smith Quotes
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.
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Milan offered me something. I was very interested by the project. It did not happen for many reasons.
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The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.
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I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
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I speak my mind. That's who I am.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.
