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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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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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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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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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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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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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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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
