Maggie Smith Quotes

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

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• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Always

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Food
  • Production
  • Absurd

• Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Want
  • End
  • Credit

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Well
  • Ease
  • Rapping

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Hand

• The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

  

  Ice T
  • Last
  • Tyranny
  • Bear

• The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Writing
  • America
  • History

• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Everything
  • Create

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • May
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself