Lillian Smith Quotes
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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I can’t die, he most famously liked to say. It would ruin my image.
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Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!
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I was tired of getting last or fifth or sixth. I was tired of falling multiple times in a program. I was tired of competing differently than how I trained. If I was going to do that, why train so hard? I took a step back, and I figured out what I wanted to change about myself.
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You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Rich folks always talk hard times.
