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.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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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.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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.
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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.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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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.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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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.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
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I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
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Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
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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.
