Alan Smith Quotes
I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.
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I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
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L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.
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I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
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I had a job once selling encyclopedias, and that was an interesting job because I learned a lot about people's vulnerabilities and how salesmen take advantage of them.
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I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.
