Alexander Smith Quotes
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.
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Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.
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McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
