Maggie Smith Quotes
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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You have to be yourself.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.