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.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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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.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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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.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
