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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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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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I use Shazam all the time.
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The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
