Liz Smith Quotes

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • School
  • Never

• I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Know

• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Good Teacher

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Money
  • Success
  • Past

• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Play
  • Movies

• I've never wanted to be the boss.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Boss

• The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Sometimes

• Women will use a glycolic acid cleanser, then an AHA/BHA serum, then a retinol night cream and sure, they have glowing skin, but that's the equivalent of a mini-peel each night. Go easy on your skin! Get good advice! We have finite layers!

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Good
  • Women
  • Night

• My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Support
  • Popular
  • First

• The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Time
  • Different
  • Always

• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Forever
  • Struggle
  • Body

• We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Thinking

• We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• 'Can I appeal?''Oh yes.''Will it do any good?''None whatsoever.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good

• There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • People
  • Friends

• I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Home
  • Heaven
  • Eternity

• The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • War
  • Tears
  • Sorrow

• When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Culture
  • Jobs
  • Creating

• You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

  

  Liz Smith