Dean Wesley Smith Quotes
Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
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The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It is better not to attempt giving an exact account at this point, but to restrict discussion to the shifting of relationships in general. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.
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My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.
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I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
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I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
