Liz Smith Quotes
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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I think penguins are cute.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
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Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
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Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with them, and they always do what they do in the name of an unknowable deity... but sometimes, they wake up. Occasionally, they realize that all religions are man-made and that none of them are ‘right.’ And when they do, they can live happy and fulfilling lives without dogma and without anticipating or fearing an afterlife.
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Trying to be true to everyone doesn’t mean that you are good; It is complete stupidity
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All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
