L. Neil Smith Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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A social worker named Cosette Rae, along with a therapist named Hilarie Cash, founded 'ReSTART' in what, until then, had been Rae's house.
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With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence. I'm constantly learning more and more about the guy.
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Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!
