Ali Smith Quotes
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Football, particularly Brazilian football, is about being happy, and that's what tricks do. It's part of our culture, at the end of the day, though, it's all about winning.
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I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
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No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
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I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.
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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
