Nancy Banks Smith Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.
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I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
