Liam Smith Quotes
My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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People work hard.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.
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In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
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My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
