Algee Smith Quotes
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I don't do negative things.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I don't have many friends.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Writers are so important.
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One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.
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There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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I used to watch 'Fresh Prince' all the time. I knew that I could do that.
