Alexander Smith Quotes

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • Man
  • Me

• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Value

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Eating

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  

  Larry Elder
  • America
  • Man
  • Dad

• To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Me
  • Luxury

• Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Canada
  • Walls

• I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Know
  • Singing

• Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • War
  • Program
  • Flaws

• I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Travel

• Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Long
  • Real
  • Hate

• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Real
  • Attention

• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

  

  Alexander Smith
  • Real