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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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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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself.
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It's nice to be able to, you know, for me to be able to personally do whatever the heck I feel like, whether I think that I can justify it exactly in business concerns or not.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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.
