L. Neil Smith Quotes
Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.
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For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.
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There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why?' But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible.
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Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
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I rarely read children's books.
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Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.
