Alexander Smith Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.
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But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
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I'm very interested in dysfunction. I kind of realized in my first film that a character with so much rage that she didn't know where to put it was both heartbreaking and interesting to me.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
