Edward Smith Quotes
Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.
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I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were 'Maxwell’s Equations of Software!'
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As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.
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As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
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I am not obsessive about anything except my health.
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I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
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After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.
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I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
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There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
