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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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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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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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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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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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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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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Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
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No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through.
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Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.
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All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
