Ali Smith Quotes
What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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We all have the right to comment about each other.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.
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Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
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I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.
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It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.
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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
