Liz Smith Quotes
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I got through college.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.
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Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?
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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
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Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.
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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
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One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
