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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I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.
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Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman's emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax.
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As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
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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.
