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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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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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 new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.
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And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
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I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
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When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
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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.
