Maggie Smith Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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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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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
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Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That's why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others' skating because we know how much work goes into it.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
