Ali Smith Quotes
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
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I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.
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I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
