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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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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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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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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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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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
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I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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I tried several things and this was the only one I enjoyed doing.
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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
