J. Smith-Cameron Quotes
People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?
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People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.
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New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.
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Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
