Ali Smith Quotes
The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
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I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
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In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor.
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I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.
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The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.
