Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
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I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
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Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
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I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
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Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
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Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.
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I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
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Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.
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Each man believes only his experience.
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We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
