Ali Smith Quotes
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
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That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.
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People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
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As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
