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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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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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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With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
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You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.
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I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.
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All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
