LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
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For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another
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You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
