Liam Smith Quotes
I've been laughing with my brothers about it. Paul and Stephen both won the British title before me, but I'm going to be the first world champion in the family.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.
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The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
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When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.
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I've been laughing with my brothers about it. Paul and Stephen both won the British title before me, but I'm going to be the first world champion in the family.
