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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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
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Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.
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I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.