L. Neil Smith Quotes
If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.
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Towards the end, there weren't that many people watching 'Glee.' So I don't know how many people would then watch a spinoff. We're off the air for a reason.
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After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.
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Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
