Ali Smith Quotes
I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.
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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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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.
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I distinctly remember watching Annie when I was very little and thinking 'I don't like this kid.' In fact I think I remember thinking 'I don't like any of these kids.' That's all I remember.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
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I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.
