L. Neil Smith Quotes
Conventional politicians almost never think their philosophy through and set it down for everyone to examine. In most cases, they don't dare. Republicans would soon discover that they're actually socialists. Democrats would discover that they're actually fascists.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
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Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
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J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.
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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains - A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains.Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright, A fortune-favored child - Now locked for aye, in mental night, A haggard mad-man wild.
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Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
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We’ve got to resist the false trap that says either there should be no accountability for police or that every police officer is suspect no matter what they do.
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.
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Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
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I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.
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I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.
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At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space, it's also to work with the time, to work with the people who are involved with the place. It's also dealing with history. It takes all this into account. Other works can be placed in different environments, but they always follow a rule. This is usually not the case for work in situ, because even if they are transported, they remain there forever or they are destroyed.
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Conventional politicians almost never think their philosophy through and set it down for everyone to examine. In most cases, they don't dare. Republicans would soon discover that they're actually socialists. Democrats would discover that they're actually fascists.
