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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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
