Deborah Smith Quotes
Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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It's a different world.
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You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
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I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
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Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
